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Beyond App Stores: Weaving Apps into the Web

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Re: Beyond App Stores: Weaving Apps into the Web

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Post by signalsignal »

I don't know how else to put this but local, compiled apps run faster than web apps. And the problems laid out in the article are indicative of development choices, for example not being able to pick up where one left off in a local app as opposed to in a browser app in the NYT example.

Re: Beyond App Stores: Weaving Apps into the Web

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Post by gaborcselle »

signalsignal wrote: post #2

I don't know how else to put this but local, compiled apps run faster than web apps. And the problems laid out in the article are indicative of development choices, for example not being able to pick up where one left off in a local app as opposed to in a browser app in the NYT example.

Running a compiled app instead of a web page, as laid out in the post, would have that benefit.

The central theme of the post is that the local app and the webpage are disconnected - the fact that you can't pick up where you left off in the other is not a development choice.

Re: Beyond App Stores: Weaving Apps into the Web

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Post by rwbt »

BroNamath wrote: post #7

I don't like apps anymore. Why would I want Hotel Tonight (for example) on my iphone from a trip to Dallas two months ago. The constant updating, notifications, etc. Apps are a mess. I don't have a solution but I do know I'm tired of apps.

Exactly, Mobile Apps (not games) are rapidly becoming the CD-ROMs of the modern times. Too much waste of space and resources for such a minimal use.

I only use email/rss and twitter apps. Everything else I always try to do in the browser.

Re: Beyond App Stores: Weaving Apps into the Web

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Post by webXL »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #6

Automatically downloading and executing binary code from the web. What could possibly go wrong? Isn't NaCL supposed to in part solve this?

Take out that automatic nonsense and I think he makes a good proposal. A URL can currently load a local app rather than a page in webkit. Only in this case, there would be some markup that would tell the browser to check for the installed app, perhaps the browser would present some unobtrusive indicator that a hybrid app was available to download. Just keep the address bar and the rest of the browser chrome there, swap the webkit frame out with the app's window, let the app access some of the history APIs, and you'd have a good portion of this figured out.
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