Browsers and Apps in 2012

Posted by bookwormAT on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @03:09PM
from the tbray.org dept.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/05/02/Web-Futurez

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Re:Browsers and Apps in 2012 by officialchicken on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @06:12PM (#3979180)

The distinction will remain on iOS until Apple opens up mobile webkit for UIWebViews. Until then, I'm just left with wrappers, bridges, and perfectly documented API's that I just can't access easily or readily (WebScriptCallFrame, WebFrame, ScriptDebugger, etc.)

I guess I'm really really looking forward to implementing yet another iOS HTML5 modal dialog... there are similar but different problems on android.

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Re:Browsers and Apps in 2012 by Kilimanjaro on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @04:24PM (#3978602)

Someday internet connection will be so fast, and computers will be so fast, and browsers will be so fast that apps and pages will merge into one web, where doing FaceTime in Facebook or playing Diablo in my browser will be a matter of clicking a link, something apps can't do right now. So in the end, browsers win.

I'll check back this post in 2020.

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Re:Browsers and Apps in 2012 by bookwormAT on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @06:25AM (#3981379)

While I can imagine such a development, I have learned that any prediction of how tech evolves within 7 years is complete nonesense.

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Re:Browsers and Apps in 2012 by strandev on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @05:07PM (#3978848)

Someday isn't interesting to people deciding what to use today.

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Re:Browsers and Apps in 2012 by rudiger on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @07:03PM (#3979408)

Is there a version of Instagram that's more open to the Web?

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