One another thing... all those apps were developed in CSS, HTML, or JavaScript.

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Instead, Apple wants developers and publishers to use an emerging combination of Web standards (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) known as HTML5.

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It allows web designers to create websites using HTML, CSS and Javascript and ensure that they work properly on various devices and platforms.

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The wireframe or prototype then can be exported as industry standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and shared in popular browsers for immediate review and approval.

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Those settings run the gamut from simple emulation, to setting it to run a particular version of Java, to even replacing strings within the HTML or CSS so that the app renders properly in an upgraded browser.

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Perhaps you have seen CSS Zen Garden where the same basic HTML page is rendered in extravagantly different forms solely through applying a different CSS file?

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Now that HTML (and Javascript and CSS) has finally evolved to the point where some basic rich media tasks can be accomplished (e.g. image slide shows), by all means.

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While there are many advantages to being built around HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, those tools don't excite game developers who need direct access to advanced graphics hardware to render animations smoothly.

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RightDoc is now delivering RightDoc 2.0, a business document writer that uses XML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as its file formats, and can output HTML, Portable Document Format, and PostScript formats.

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