Comments on: Web development is changing to meet mobile needs

By: antics

antics — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:34:38 +0000

No I believe Joel has a point actually. As far as I understand what he's talking about is not about cross platform but more about how we will be using web services from different parties to create products and services.

For instance, if we were talking about a blog then our blog teaser would be no more than 160 chars long and would be saved to our twitter account. The text would be saved on some other service and images on another.

Summary/teaser -> Twitter
Text body -> blogspot maybe
Images in body -> Flickr

Then what our product will do is save the URL's to all the various API's and mash it all up.

What I believe HTML5 will become is a nice user cross platform interface to the services we create. Actually it's up to the user to choose how he want's to interface and preent the actual data.

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By: JoelHughes

JoelHughes — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:42:38 +0000

I take your point Travis, but still think mine is valid. I'll expand further on this in a future post: mobile use, so far, focusses on apps that can run in the background on user's mobiles and are easily accessible as native applications.

Technologies like Nokia-WRT/Ovi-SDK and Opera Web Widgets will leverage the best of both worlds.

I think a key difference between mobile and desktop is the lack of screen space preventing you from keeping multiple browser tabs/windows open continuously.

And, I-phone/Android apps wont disappear when HTML5 becomes standard; creating APIs that allow others to customise the service to any platform seems like sound logic (it allows you to adapt to what ever takes off).

By: traviscooper

traviscooper — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:29:34 +0000

i disagree. the html 5 etc. will be the future of apps… they will truely be cross platform, where the actual apps for particular sdks require much more effort to get them on most phones….

bad logic on your part.

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