Comments on: Return of the Web Apps? http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/03/return-of-the-web-apps/ For people who dare to Phone Different. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:22:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/03/return-of-the-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-23111 Michael Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:35:28 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=4728#comment-23111 <p>I wish apple would let the user decide which bookmarks they would like to have opened in a fullscreen safari window. I would love to open google reader in fullscreen but google doesn't want to add the feature. I think there rational is that it would confuse those who don't want it in fullscreen.</p> I wish apple would let the user decide which bookmarks they would like to have opened in a fullscreen safari window. I would love to open google reader in fullscreen but google doesn’t want to add the feature. I think there rational is that it would confuse those who don’t want it in fullscreen.

]]> By: The Tuesday Night Tech Show http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/03/return-of-the-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-16716 The Tuesday Night Tech Show Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:01:40 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=4728#comment-16716 <p>I prefer webapps since they are lightweight, very focused and still alive and well. I use most of them on most of the directories. I like http://webapps.ifthensoft.com for some good webapps for the Touch or iPhone. Plus, they are FREE!</p> I prefer webapps since they are lightweight, very focused and still alive and well. I use most of them on most of the directories. I like http://webapps.ifthensoft.com for some good webapps for the Touch or iPhone. Plus, they are FREE!

]]> By: Appruv.com http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/03/return-of-the-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-16605 Appruv.com Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:39:55 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=4728#comment-16605 <p>I think Web Apps are definitely the future. Native apps run faster, but there are MANY compelling reasons to develop a web application. Objective C is not an easy language to write with, whereas just about anyone can pickup up Rails or PHP in a weekend with a little HTML knowledge. Check out our writeup on the topic over at: http://appruv.com</p> I think Web Apps are definitely the future. Native apps run faster, but there are MANY compelling reasons to develop a web application. Objective C is not an easy language to write with, whereas just about anyone can pickup up Rails or PHP in a weekend with a little HTML knowledge. Check out our writeup on the topic over at: http://appruv.com

]]> By: Manuel R. Ciosici http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/03/return-of-the-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-16592 Manuel R. Ciosici Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:49:24 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=4728#comment-16592 <p>WebApps are not at all obsolete or unused. Whereas you can do a lot with the native apps there are some things you just don't need a native app for. Here's an example: Google Reader - is runs perfectly on MobileSafari and does everything it would need to. What Apple did with that full screen web app thingy is not an extraordinary feat, it is just a something that would make more webdevelopers approach the iPhone platform and unlike normal (native apps) developers, the web ones are free to: 1. Create whatever they want (in the constrains of web technology) 2. Do it by using any platform they wish (be it OSX, win or Linux), even if for some platforms Apple offers poor documentation (to be read: training movies for webdevelopers are harder, if not impossible, to view on a linux machine)</p> WebApps are not at all obsolete or unused. Whereas you can do a lot with the native apps there are some things you just don’t need a native app for. Here’s an example: Google Reader – is runs perfectly on MobileSafari and does everything it would need to. What Apple did with that full screen web app thingy is not an extraordinary feat, it is just a something that would make more webdevelopers approach the iPhone platform and unlike normal (native apps) developers, the web ones are free to: 1. Create whatever they want (in the constrains of web technology) 2. Do it by using any platform they wish (be it OSX, win or Linux), even if for some platforms Apple offers poor documentation (to be read: training movies for webdevelopers are harder, if not impossible, to view on a linux machine)

]]> By: deeman http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/03/return-of-the-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-16591 deeman Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:57:35 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=4728#comment-16591 <p>This annoys me, the only justifcation I hear about the fact we have no notifications, cut and paste, turn by turn or any of the other features everyone is waiting for is beacause apple are too busy with important things such as stabalisation. But this is obviously bollox! Why do they have time to improve out of date features that on one has asked for or really cares about, we can easily do without this and the time spent on it could have been used to actually keep iphone users happy. Maybe it didn't take long and was a quick improvement where as the others are quite large but for me it's the principle, apple are momentarily taking our concentration of these features where as they should just be nailing them and releasing them.</p> This annoys me, the only justifcation I hear about the fact we have no notifications, cut and paste, turn by turn or any of the other features everyone is waiting for is beacause apple are too busy with important things such as stabalisation. But this is obviously bollox! Why do they have time to improve out of date features that on one has asked for or really cares about, we can easily do without this and the time spent on it could have been used to actually keep iphone users happy. Maybe it didn’t take long and was a quick improvement where as the others are quite large but for me it’s the principle, apple are momentarily taking our concentration of these features where as they should just be nailing them and releasing them.

]]> By: Bad Ash http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/03/return-of-the-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-16564 Bad Ash Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:41:03 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=4728#comment-16564 <p>I have not had time to look into it, but good job John. :)</p> I have not had time to look into it, but good job John. :)

]]> By: John http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/03/return-of-the-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-16548 John Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:10:35 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=4728#comment-16548 <p>I can confirm that the code below gives you that functionality</p> <p>/--- --/</p> I can confirm that the code below gives you that functionality

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]]> By: John http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/03/return-of-the-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-16546 John Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:50:19 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=4728#comment-16546 <p>More complete post -- sorry</p> <p> </p> More complete post — sorry

]]> By: John http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/10/03/return-of-the-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-16544 John Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:48:07 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=4728#comment-16544 <p>In looking at the Demo App's code - i'm seeing some new META tags that may be giving this page the new functionality.</p> <p>meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" /> <meta names="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black-translucent"</p> In looking at the Demo App’s code – i’m seeing some new META tags that may be giving this page the new functionality.

meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;” /> <meta names=”apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style” content=”black-translucent”

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