Amazon has announced that they've overhauled the Amazon MP3 store, making the HTML5 webpage work much more nicely with the iPhone. Now, if you visit amazon.com/mp3 you'll get a browsing experience optimized for use from your mobile device — including the fact that you can buy all those seemingly … [Read more...]
The saga of Facebook's iOS, iPad and HTML5 apps continues. Remember the leaked Project Spartan? Well, it looks like both it and Facebook's native iPad app are set to launch early next week, possibly in conjunction with Apple's big event. TechCrunch unearthed a page devoted to an HTML5 version of … [Read more...]
Much like Amazon's recent move to making an HTML5 app, Walmart is likewise making a web-app to avoid Apple's in-app purchase restrictions. VUDU is Walmart's streaming video service, and they've just announced that it is coming to the iPad, in the form of their website. No separate app, nothing. The … [Read more...]
Apple's standing policy has always been that if you don't like the limites placed on the app store, you're totally allowed to make an HTML5 web app out of anything you like. Now, in the wake of Apple's in-app purchase restrictions, RWW is reporting that a number of prominent e-readers are going … [Read more...]
Back in March, the blogosphere was afire with word that Apple's high speed Java app boost that was available in iOS 4.3 didn't work on web apps saved to the home screen. This tool, called Nitro, simply wasn't enabled for full screen web apps, causing some consternation, and then everyone promptly … [Read more...]
Earlier this year we heard that Playboy was planning on releasing an uncensored iPad app, only to announced that it wouldn't be a native iOS app. Well, the day you've all been so eagerly waiting for is finally here, the Playboy web app has been unleashed on the unsuspecting iPad population. Simply … [Read more...]
Earlier this week, news broke that web apps weren't seeing the same speed gain as apps run inside Safari thanks to the new Nitro Engine. Now, great rafts of technically minded people have come forward explaining why this is, and what it means, of which the vast majority are beyond my ken. John … [Read more...]
It appears that there's a bug in iOS 4.3 where web apps saved to the homescreen run slower than those accessed through Safari. Say what? This was uncovered by the Register (who are generally anti-Apple, but nonetheless have an excellent technical reputation) and it appears that if you save a web app … [Read more...]
By now, most of you have probably downloaded the everythingiCafe community app from the App Store. The community app provides our readers with super fast native access to our iPhone forums with the ability to post new topics, reply, upload images and more. Today we are announcing a companion web … [Read more...]
Google today introduced a web version of their Google Voice for iPhone. Of course, many of you will remember that Apple refused to approve the native Google Voice for iPhone. Officially, it's "still under review". The new version is web based, so bypasses any need for approval from … [Read more...]
