HTML5 And Android Development Using Adappt compiler
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Text Markup Language
Before hyper text markup language (HTML) existed, TML (text marked language) was used by Magazine and newspaper editors. Stories were given to them and markup notes would be added, these would allow the typesetters to know which words should be in 'italics' or 'bold', before being sent to the printing presses. The editor would put < bold > in front of a word that was to be in bold and then put < /b > or < /bold > after it. A < p > would be written at the end of a line or paragraph, other 'markups' would also be used, e.g. < Title >iPhone Development using HTML5< /Title > < p >
Dot Matrix and thermal computer printers used similar 'markup language'; and could write in bold, italics and various typefaces provided the correct print commands (markup characters) were sent.
If pictures and words could be transmitted along a cable and become a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) magazine page, then if this stream of characters could be sent over the internet as 'Hyper Text Markup Language' it would reproduce a page from one computer monitor to another.
HTML was the language used to specify if words should be in italics or bold etc. The markuplanguage was called HyperTextMarkupLanguage (HTML) because it travelled through 'hyper space', (sci-fi terms were used in the 90's, e.g. internet ether and Ethernet).
HyperTextTransferProtocol (HTTP)
In the 1980's there were quite a few different (some were home made) 'home' computers, all of which were made as stand alone. They did not (generally) communicate with each other, therefore there was no need for a universal protocol standard.
Definition of a Protocol
If you see a person at a business meeting (whom you have never met or spoken to before), then you might ask a mutual friend to introduce you. This is typically involves a hand shake; if this protocol is not followed (i.e. you barge in while they are talking to someone else), it is possible they might not talk/communicate with you.
Towards the end of 1990, Berners-Lee had all the necessary components to send pages of information from one computer monitor to another. The main requirements were/are HTML, HTTP together with a browser (allowing the displays to look the same even though they were on different computers and monitors. It was called the World Wide Web (www.) and the pages became known as 'web pages'.
HTML Evolves To Become HTML5
Early web pages were often simply pages of information, similar to a page in a book. Users wanted them to be more interactive (e.g. buttons were added, and then graphics), and newer versions of HTML were written. The latest release is HTML5, which is written for today desktop and portable computer browsers and is therefore ideally suitable for today's mobile devices. A few companies at the cutting edge of writing apps for the Blackberry iPhone, iPad, windows mobile and involved with android development have taken advantage of the universal compatibility of HTML5 to increase efficiency, reduce development time and reduce development cost.
If an app is required for an android, iphone, or BlackBerry mobile device, then using HTML5 and a compiler from adAPPt.co.uk, the app will not only work on the primary mobile internet device, e.g. an android, but can also be cross compiled for the Blackberry, iPhone or any other mobile device. |
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Author Resource:-
The Author is David Hudson, who is very involved with android development and gives technical advice to AeonDada.
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By :
Dave F Hudson
Submitted
2011-08-15 00:56:07 |
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