Apps vs The Web
Some interesting ideas on the commonalities and differences between native apps and the web.
Tags: native
Jeremy Keith: One Web — Update 2011 - YouTube
My short talk from Aral’s Update conference in Brighton last September. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. If I only I had a handheld mic—then I could’ve done a microphone drop at the end.
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.
LukeW | The Web OS is Already Here…
Luke points out that the web is everywhere: it’s accessible through the browser but also through many native applications. This is the real Web Operating System.
The Web (browser) is inside of every application instead of every application being inside the Web (browser).
The mobile web splash screen antipattern [Legends of the Sun Pig - Martin Sutherland’s Blog]
Excellent points, eloquently delivered, on why sites shouldn’t be shoving their native Apps in the face of people who just arrived at their website on a mobile device.
Putting up a splash screen is like McDonalds putting a bouncer on the door, and telling customers who just parked their car and want to enter the restaurant that they should use the drive-through instead.
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.
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.
The web is a different problem | Web Directions
John pushes back against the idea that browser innovation is moving too slow.
Update 2011 Conference Recap :: Freelance WordPress Developer Amber Weinberg
I’m loving Amber’s detailed write-up of the Update conference, especially her description of the panel discussion as me versus everyone else.
The One Web: don’t write for devices, write for people | Opinion | .net magazine
A great opinion piece from Addy Osmani prompted by the panel discussion I took part in at the Update conference.
HTML5 Rocks - HTML5 vs Native: The Mobile App Debate
An even-handed weighing up of the pros and cons of native and web app development for mobile.
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.
Out of this World: China Miéville: what if?
China Miéville gives a rundown of some underrated classics of the alternative history subgenre …including Richard Curtis’s Notting Hill.
Links Don’t Open Apps « Cloud Four
A timely reminder from Jason of the killer feature of the web: hyperlinks.
Geek Ninja Battle Night | Stuff and Nonsense
Andy hammers home the benefit of a long-term format like HTML compared to the brittle, fleeting shininess of an ephemeral platform-specific app.
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.