MWC 2011: Netbiscuits adds HTML5 to dev framework

Mobile site and app specialist improves the web app feature set.

The firm's HTML5+ extension of its Rich UI Development Framework enables the following:

* auto-location via GPS (Location Biscuit)
* animated tickers (Ticker Biscuit)
* more advanced image and video galleries (Gallery Biscuit)

It has also 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.

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