Microsoft was awarded on Tuesday a patent by the US Patents and Trademarks Office on writing Windows applications in HTML, so making it possible to bypass the built-in security that browsers offer.

Microsoft on Tuesday won a patent for launching a certain kind of HTML application within Windows. The patent, "Method and apparatus for writing a Windows application in HTML" (Hypertext Markup ...

An application in which all or some parts of the software are downloaded from the Web every time it runs. There are essentially three types of Web applications. Progressive Web apps are browser based, ...

Rich Internet applications (RIA) are Web-based applications that have some characteristics of graphical desktop applications. Built with powerful development tools, RIAs can run faster and be more ...

As a meta-framework, Astro.js takes a different approach to developing web applications. Start here with a few critical design decisions. Astro.js is among the most popular meta-frameworks for ...