
The market for smartphones and tablets is heavily divided into Android, iOS, Windows Phone/Windows 8, BlackBerry and webOS, with the first two obviously being the big players. The vast spread of mobile devices with different operating systems is another aspect, where HTML5 can shine. With Microsoft abandoning Silverlight and Adobe officially favoring HTML5 instead of Flash for mobile development it is quite obvious that HTML5 is not just another huge hype bubble that will burst once the next shiny new technology arrives. It is now possible to develop serious sophisticated web frontends only using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Recent developments and the arrival of HTML5, CSS3 and foremost many new HTML/JavaScript APIs (canvas, offline storage, web sockets, asynchronous worker threads, video/audio, geolocation, drag & drop.
