Mobile Web Overload

Two quick posts.  First on mobile and second on living in a digital age.

Mobile Applications

It’s like 1999 again we need to build all “mobile” apps in html, makes sense to me. What are your thoughts?

Saw a great film on living in the digital age by Frontline.  You can view the video below.

Digital Nation

  • http://blogofmu.com/ Richard

    I think a lot of that is getting there. Things like http://www.jqtouch.com/ work and look nice on the iWhatevers and somewhat works on a Droid (those the only devices I have to test on so not sure on Palm Pre or Blackberries) that you can easily use to create a nice looking app using just the web quickly. A good chunk of the framework is to replicate an iphone app BUT you can basically do your own whole thing and just use the parts you want (currently I’m just using it for the load screen and nice app icon.) These are great for most applications “clients” think of. They basically just want to be able to say they have an app and give them basically the same info they could get through the website anyways. This makes it super simple and quick to do that.

    The problems I see though are with the few apps that go beyond, mainly games. While things are getting faster and faster, there is still a lot more power in code that directly accesses the hardware and doesn’t have to go through extra layers. It may eventually get there but isn’t yet.

    Also with things like Appcelerator’s Titanium we can even develop both a web version and a real app version at the same time because you can use the same tech to make both.

    Overall lots of great options to do what he’s already talking about and makes things way easier when not having to use a ton of different languages.
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