Some of the Best Programming Tools for Maximizing HTML5

HTML5 is a perfect medium for  developers to build modern web apps. Its rise has brought up question about the future of proprietary multimedia plugins for browsers like Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe Flash, as HTML5 targets to provide a standards-based process of performing the same functions. Here is the list of tools for app developers to include HTML5 into their programs.

Adobe Edge

• Adobe edge is a designing tool for creating animated content on HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.

• This product has a WebKit-based stage, that gives compositions fidelity all across modern browsers.

• This will work well with font services such as TypeKit.

• Developers can add motions and graphics to HTML elements, and can extend the apps via JavaScript code as well as via Edge’s own code snippet.

• Developers can reuse the symbols and can control them via code snippets and APIs.  

Adobe Dreamweaver CS6

• It serves as web designing software that provides a visual interface for HTML website editing as well as mobile applications.

• It has a Fluid Layout system that offers cross-platform compatibility to create adaptive layouts.

• Developers, Adobe says, can visually construct complex Web designs and page layouts without getting buried in code.

• The users can preview designs by Multiscreen Preview capabilities and also by Live View. Multiscreen Preview allows developers to see rendering of HTML5 content.

Adobe ColdFusion 10

• It’s a server-side technology that helps build enterprise web apps leverages HTML5 integration to enhance user experience using video, geo-tagging, WebSockets and interactive chatting.

• Developers using this tool can access an interactive client-side HTML5 charts repository.

• Developers can implement a point-to-point data push with the help of a real-time server response or can publish data to multiple clients.

Sencha Architect 2

• This tool is targets mobile and desktop apps. It has been billed as HTML5 visual app builder.

• Teams of developers can design, build and deploy applications from just single integrated environment. They can also develop Ext JS 4 JavaScript and Sencha Touch 2 and preview them.

• The designers can prototype interactions and application configuration, and developers can pre built UI controls to develop app concept by using visual tools. And then use a built-in code editor that will help build the application using MVC (model view controller).

Sencha Touch 2

• It’s a mobile app framework that has been developed as a foundation of Sencha's HTML5 platform.

• Application can be built for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Kindle Fire, including other devices.

• The version 2 has easy-to-use API, rich documentation as well as an improved Model View Controller abilities.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1

• It was initially released without HTML5 support, but later Microsoft added few capabilities with SPI.
• IntelliSense was added to make language references easy to access by recognizing commands. HTML5 validation is supported by this tool to ensure code works fine.
• SPI helps build HTML5 and CSS3 web apps in an easy way on top of ASP.Net.

Google Web Toolkit

• It’s a development toolkit that build browser apps, and features some HTML5 capabilities in the GWT library.
• HTML5 (Web) storage specification has a standardized process of locally persistent storage, partitioning of session storage and providing huge amounts of client-side storage.

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