HTML5 or Native Apps? Either way, we've got you covered.
The mobile developer community was already hot for HTML5 before Google Voice shipped their latest version. By offering app-like capabilities within the browser, HTML5 offers app developers a new creative outlet that doesn’t require anyone’s <cough-Steve Jobs-cough> permission to ship or distribute. Emerging technical standards may not interest iPhone owners, but HTML5 is a huge opportunity for the mobile developer community, which has chafed under the opaque and unilateral rule of Apple’s approval process. The Google Voice release fired a shot across Apple’s bow that every mobile developer (and lots of tech bloggers, too) sat up and noticed.
Not surprisingly, if iPhone (and other mobile platform) developers are passionate about something, you can bet that the team at AppStoreHQ (and our developer forum, iPhoneDevSDK) are stoked about it too. We still have a ton of work to do to flesh out our catalog, but given the blaze of enthusiasm triggered by the Google Voice update (and our general ‘Fire + Motion’ tendencies) we just couldn’t help ourselves:
Effective today, AppStoreHQ now offers search and discovery of HTML5 apps in addition to our existing native iPhone app offerings. Our HTML5 app inventory is still pretty limited (read on to see how you can help), but you can now:
- Blog about any listed HTML5 app, include our AppBack widget in your post, and have your comments indexed, featured and linked to on AppStoreHQ
- Tweet about any listed HTML5 apps, include ‘HTML5’ and the app URL in your tweet, and have your tweets indexed and featured on AppStoreHQ
- Search for HTML5 apps on AppStoreHQ - and filter our search results to show only HTML5 results (remember, we don’t have many to find just yet…)
All we need now is to build the biggest, most comprehensive directory of HTML5 apps on the web, and WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you want to give your favorite HTML5 developer a leg up on getting found, please send them our way, tell us about their apps, and generally SPREAD THE WORD! Let’s make an HTML5 revolution! (or at least tilt the mobile apps playing field a tiny bit back in the indie direction).
C’mon people! Let’s do this!


