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Dan is collecting all of those product demo videos aimed squarely at young white single males with iPhones.
Tags: apps
No, I’m not going to download your bullshit app by Tom Morris
I share Tom’s frustration with news apps that should be websites:
I wouldn’t download a BBC app or an NPR app for my computer. Why would I want one on my phone?
Why mobile Web accessibility matters - best practices to make your mobile site accessible | mobiForge
There’s some great practical advice for building accessible mobile web apps here.
Stories and Tools - Anil Dash
This post is ten years old, but I think it might still be the best attempt to demarcate a difference between web “sites” and web “apps”: think of them as stories and tools.
It’s also remarkably prescient about the need for an effort exactly like HTML5:
A widely-distributed, standards-compliant, browser and platform-independent library of functions that would perform the basic user interface functions for a web-based tool, relying on the server side only for the logic and data sourcing.
Every Mobile Social App Site, Ever · Visual Idiot
This is kinda funny (because it’s kinda true).
A Furniture Manifesto | Roseology
Taking apps out of phones and embedding them in the world around us …there’s a lot of crossover with what Scott Jenson has been writing about here. Good stuff.
The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dustbin of history | VentureBeat
Some future-friendly musings on mobile from Mozilla and Yahoo.
inessential.com: Apps and web apps and the future
Brent Simmons follows up on that Dave Winer post with some future-friendly thoughts:
If I had to choose one or the other — if I had some crazy power but I had to wipe out either native apps or web apps — I’d wipe out native apps. (While somehow excluding browsers, text editors, outliners, web servers, and all those apps we need to make web apps.)
That’s not the case, though. Nothing has to get wiped out.
I think instead that we’ll see a more tangled future. Native apps will use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript more. Web apps will appear more often on smart phones as launchable apps.
Scripting News: Why apps are not the future
Spot. On.
The great thing about the web is linking. I don’t care how ugly it looks and how pretty your app is, if I can’t link in and out of your world, it’s not even close to a replacement for the web. It would be as silly as saying that you don’t need oceans because you have a bathtub.
One Hundred Percent : Jonathan Stark
An excellent point from Jonathan: both native apps and web apps require an internet connection …and both native apps and web apps can be made to work without an internet connection.
This might sound obvious, but the myth that “only native apps can work without an internet connection” is surprisingly widespread.
Of Web Apps and HTML Apps : Jonathan Stark
A real-world anecdote from Jonathan illustrates some of the misconceptions around using HTML instead of going native. A lot of people don’t realise that web apps can store data offline.
Is the app economy killing online publishers? — Mobile Technology News
An excellent article that examines the supposed benefits of publishing through someone else’s app store instead of the web.
Mobile Apps Must Die | Blog | design mind
Scott writes up some of the things he talked about at the Breaking Development conference: the just-in-time interactions that are inevitable in a heavily-instrumented world.
Chromium Blog: Connecting Web Apps with Web Intents
A quick overview and explanation of web intents.
How to fail at mobile web [Legends of the Sun Pig - Martin Sutherland’s Blog]
It’s a provocative title but I certainly agree with this post’s premise. And the situation it describes is all too familiar.
Pretenders: Why mobile Web apps should stop trying to act like native apps « cvil.ly
I agree with this. I like it. I plus one it. So to speak.
HTML5 — Edition for Web Developers
A beautifully readable subset of the HTML spec, with an emphasis on writing web apps (and with information intended for browser makers has been removed). Very handy indeed!
Help stop the spread of NIBS (Native is Better Syndrome) | Web Directions
John Allsopp calls bullshit on the notion that native apps are intrinsically better than web apps. I concur.
Position Paper for the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents
Here's a little piece of web history: the proposal that was presented and rejected at the 2004 W3C workshop that led to the formation of the WHATWG.
10K Apart | Inspire the web with just 10K.
I'll be sitting in judgement on the entries to this neat competition which harks back to the good ol' days of 5k.org.
MiniApps - HTML5 apps for iPhone, iPad, Android & other mobile platforms
A nice collection of free apps for your mobile device. No app store required, thanks to offline storage.
QuirksBlog: HTML5 apps
PPK proposes a new buzzword for standards-based mobile development: HTML5 Apps. Definition: "an iPhone app that works on several other platforms, too, and doesn’t have to go through the app store approval process."
QuirksBlog: Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid.
PPK offers a rebuttal to Paul Graham's attack on Apple's App Store policies by placing the blame firmly at the feet of developers who refuse to embrace web technologies.
Yahoo! Application Platform - YDN
This sounds like Yahoo's answer to Facebook Platform for single web pages or (spit!) widgets. We'll see if the reality matches the hype. "The Yahoo! Application Platform allows you to build and launch open-social applications to the largest daily …
App Engine, Facebook Platform, OpenSocial, and the Future of the Web - O'Reilly Radar
David Recordon shares his first impressions of Google App Engine.
Apple - Web apps
Looks like Apple are trying to redefine the term "web app" to mean sites created for the iPhone. The revisionism is completely barefaced.
[this is aaronland] Trying not to cut down the trees for an inability to see the forest
Aaron weighs in with his thoughts on JavaScript, web apps, the iPhone, dashboard, the papernet and more. Oh, and he's built a machine-tag mashup.
Adobe Labs - Apollo
The first public alpha release of Apollo is out. Grab the runtime and then play around with some of the sample apps (none of which are that impressive but it's the thought that counts).
cubicgarden.com...The BBC should be dissolved says Mike TechCrunch Arrington
I used to think that Mike Arrington was a dick. Now I know he is.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Web apps tracking users attention
The Future of Web Apps gets a write-up on the BBC site.
"G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide"
Danah Boyd's talk at ETech 2006.
Web API Working Group Charter
The W3C proves that it can move with the times: "The mission of the W3C Web API Working Group is to develop specifications that enable improved client-side application development on the Web." This is very good news indeed.
From Web page to Web platform
CNET's News.com explains why web services are so cool.