The Future of Web Apps - Single Page Applications
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The Future of Web Apps - Single Page Applications
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Re: The Future of Web Apps - Single Page Applications
#2Originally posted in blog comment:
Indeed, we originally had this idea back in 2004 (pre-AJAX craze), which led to the creation of NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com), available to the public since 2009 (commercial since 2005, public beta in 2008).
NOLOH allows you to create your website/WebApp in a single tier and then NOLOH will output your application in a "single page". Furthermore, it takes care of bookmarking, back button, and rendering to search engines transparently to the developer. No additional pages necessary. It also handles all the client-server communication allowing your application to be consistently lightweight and on-demand.
It was very interesting reading this, as the beginning matches closely with certain portions of our original business plan. Ahh, nostalgia.
Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of NOLOH
Re: The Future of Web Apps - Single Page Applications
#3I've been following a very similar approach, writing a web app for an upcoming launch. The hardest part is keeping everything in your head. When you have a cache on the client, a cache on the backend, several databases, throw in some ajax requests and command line scripts, it becomes very difficult to sanely architect a web app in one page.
That said, it is very possible, but it requires that you bend your design to fit the model.
Re: The Future of Web Apps - Single Page Applications
#4love it love it love it love it love it
i just love it when competitors hide their web sites behind 'romulan cloaking devices' that make their content invisible to search engines!
more traffic for me!
bwa ha ha ha ha ha!
Re: The Future of Web Apps - Single Page Applications
#5Re: The Future of Web Apps - Single Page Applications
#6love it love it love it love it love it i just love it when competitors hide their web sites behind 'romulan cloaking devices' that make their content invisible to search engines! more traffic for me! bwa ha ha ha ha ha!
Did you read the article? The single-page web app degrades to linked pages when JavaScript is disabled, and it's fully indexable by search engines.
Re: The Future of Web Apps - Single Page Applications
#7love it love it love it love it love it i just love it when competitors hide their web sites behind 'romulan cloaking devices' that make their content invisible to search engines! more traffic for me! bwa ha ha ha ha ha!
Actually the article describes specifically how to do this while avoiding SEO (and no-JS) problems.
As with AJAX, the typical philosophy is to design for elegant degradation -- plan the site, then build it to work without JS, then add in the "fancy" stuff.
Re: The Future of Web Apps - Single Page Applications
#8You can see an example of this using the sweet happyworm player here:
http://www.isound.com
Re: The Future of Web Apps - Single Page Applications
#9Yes! i love where this is going
Re: The Future of Web Apps - Single Page Applications
#10love it love it love it love it love it i just love it when competitors hide their web sites behind 'romulan cloaking devices' that make their content invisible to search engines! more traffic for me! bwa ha ha ha ha ha!
From what I understand (and this is heresy) google waits a couple of microseconds and lets a page generate content before it crawls it.
That being said, if you follow google's rules as specified here - http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started... , it will crawl your ajax pages, no problem.
Finally, please be a little civil. Thanks.