Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser
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Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser
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Re: Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser
#2So... aside from the HUD integration, which is cool, what's the difference between what they've made and having multiple browser windows open?
Re: Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser
#3A smooth user experience on Unity is needed in order to ensure the well functioning of the web apps and browsers together.
Encapsulating the browser process, is what usually kills web widget performance, and I end up going back to the browser..
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#4How is it different than Prism and the likes?
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#5This is great!
Does all of this stuff work with Chrome?
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#6Currently I can only see these as yet another way to lose a little bit of your privacy. But I'm also a debian kind of guy so... :P
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#7What web apps need desperately in order to become true first class citizens is support for keyboard shortcuts across the board.
Doing Alt + should bring up the appropriate menu in the web app not the web browser.
Doing Ctrl + S should ask the web app to do a save , not ask the browser to save the .html page.
Of course this is all stuff that could be abused by aggressive websites so there needs to be a distinction between apps and pages.
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#8How is it different than Prism and the likes?
Examples they provide are
"Launch online music site Last.FM directly from the Dash and control the music from Ubuntu’s sound menu
Access and launch your social media accounts (Google+, Twitter, Facebook) from the Launcher, and get native desktop notifications
Quickly and seamlessly upload photos to Facebook from Shotwell
Pause and play the video you are watching on Youtube
See how many unread messages you have in your GMail account, in Ubuntu’s messaging indicator"
Re: Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser
#9What web apps need desperately in order to become true first class citizens is support for keyboard shortcuts across the board. Doing Alt + should bring up the appropriate menu in the web app not the web browser. Doing Ctrl + S should ask the web app to do a save , not ask the browser to save the .html page. Of course this is all stuff that could be abused by aggressive websites so there needs to be a distinction bet…
That's one important area; also significant are full-screen interfaces (which is improving), and streamlined payment for apps/services (which is improving, slowly).
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#10Android was leading the way in this (best sharing between online services etc). This looks like the first other OS to "get it" and push hard to integrate with the cloud. I think in some ways this surpasses Android.
Mean while we have iOS that's just congratulating itself for allowing photo uploads to twitter, meanwhile my Android phone has integration with services I've never even heard of.
And MacOS and Windows... nothing. Stupid silent sitting on the internet.
It's nice to see some real innovation in the Linux camp on the user end front.