David Pitt presents a guide to combining specific frameworks and structures for the basic functionality of HTML5-based mobile applications. He discusses the development considerations mobile ...

Tabris.js is an open source mobile framework aimed to build native iOS and Android apps entirely in JavaScript. Among the main benefits of Tabris.js are performance, a fast development cycle, and ...

Parse, the Y Combinator-backed startup that powers the back-end for mobile apps like Band of the Day and Hipmunk, is rolling out support for mobile web apps too. The San Francisco startup has a ...

New cross-platform mobile app development tools, which use JavaScript, can be more effective than hybrid mobile app development tools and native approaches in making sure apps perform well on multiple ...

NativeScript lets you use Angular, TypeScript, or JavaScript to build mobile apps with a truly native look and feel ...

JQ.Mobi features a query selector engine, UI library, and plug-ins. Unlike existing JavaScript UI frameworks such as JQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch, jQ.Mobi is not hampered by any legacy roots in ...

He went on to explain: “They act like a client-side proxy, so a lot of the performance benefits you would get from a native app by having data on the app, you can get from the JavaScript service ...

An introduction to the Chakra JavaScript engine and how it can be used within a Windows 10 app to execute JavaScript.

Apple brought huge JavaScript performance improvements to Mobile Safari in March of this year, but those benefits didn't extend to Web apps saved to a user's home screen. iOS 5 will remedy that ...

The JavaScript performance improvements that accompany iOS 4.3—boosting raw performance as much as 2.5x—don't appear to carry over to in-app browsers or Web apps saved to the home screen ...