Netbiscuits has announced the “HTML5+” extension of its Rich UI Development Framework. According to the company, new features enable the best user experience for mobile web applications on all mobile devices using the latest in HTML5 technology

Published: 15 Feb 2011

Netbiscuits has announced the “HTML5+” extension of its Rich UI Development Framework. According to the company, new features enable the best user experience for mobile web applications on all mobile devices using the latest in HTML5 technology

The extended feature set enables auto-location via GPS (Location Biscuit), animated tickers (Ticker Biscuit) and more advanced image and video galleries (Gallery Biscuit). In addition, Netbiscuits’ full Rich UI Framework has been expanded to develop multi-touch navigation, floating layers, swiping galleries, dynamic maps, auto-complete, and get-remote content features for mobile web applications.

All rich UI features are adapted to more handsets and platforms, including Windows Phone 7.

“The term 'HTML5+' is our way of defining our approach towards upcoming new technologies in the mobile space,” said Michael Neidhöfer, CEO of Netbiscuits.

He added, “We believe that HTML5 as a technology is a great step forward in the creation of mobile web applications which feel like native apps. But HTML5 is not an approved standard, yet. Consequently, developers will face fragmentation problems resulting from inconsistent HMTL5 implementations on the various mobile software platforms for years to come.”

The company highlighted that it offers solutions that get the best possible user experience out of each device by making the best use of the specific features of any given mobile device.

“We enable these and other features by providing a vast array of multi-layout building blocks to set up mobile sites,” said Neidhöfer.

He added, “Each of these "Biscuits" is individually adaptable to the capabilities of any specific mobile device. Thereby Netbiscuits is able to exploit the rich, touch-based user interface capabilities of the latest smartphones and guarantees optimized delivery to less expensive but highly popular mass market feature phones as well. Basically, Netbiscuits allows you to use one code source to feed the whole spectrum from the very top down to the very end, enabling mobile websites and native apps via hybrid solutions for all major platforms. This is what we see as the basis for a sustainable mobile web strategy.”