How HTML5 Aids Mobile Financial App Development

This is our second post in the HTML5 series. There are number of new tags in HTML5 that aid in the development of mobile financial apps. In this post, I aim to explain these new HTML5 tags and how they facilitate the building of fully functional financial apps with native user experience.

We partnered with our friends at OpenFin, to develop a HTML5-based mobile app. They developed a HTML5-based financial app (PNL tool) for the iPad. The app gets updated every five minutes and provides quotes for securities across multiple asset classes (stock, bonds, options and futures). The app was developed in 2 weeks flat.  As they say, seeing is believing. To get a feel of how powerful HTML5 apps can be, download the app for free on your iPad.

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