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HTML5 And Filling Gaps Between Web and Desktop/Mobile Apps

38 points by jasonlbaptiste 17y ago

JarekS 17y ago
I can not agree more on the point of the Simplified Billing and Monetization Mechanisms. In my opinion it is one of the greatest contributors of the Apple app store success and should be copied in the SaaS world as soon as possible as often as possible.
- iseff 17y ago
  Agreed. My startup (http://www.appstorehq.com http://www.appstorehq.com) is a multi-platform search and discovery site for mobile apps. One of the platforms we support is mobile web (HTML5) apps. One thing we've quietly rolled out and are private alpha testing is a dead simple payments API. This allows mobile web app developers to monetize their apps with just one API call. I'd love for anyone to check it out and let me know what they think (iseff@appstorehq.com). We don't have docs for it yet (since it's still private), but I created a test app for it and open-sourced that: Fortysquires (a foursquare checkin mobile web app): http://fortysquires.com http://fortysquires.com On AppStoreHQ: http://www.appstorehq.com/fortysquires-mobilewebfoursquareclient-html5web-196344/app http://www.appstorehq.com/fortysquires-mobilewebfoursquarecl... And the source on GitHub: http://github.com/iseff/fortysquires http://github.com/iseff/fortysquires If anyone wants to try it out, I'd be happy to explain further how it can work for you. We hope it helps remove the payments "muck" as well as increase distribution with our hundreds of thousands of UV/month.
jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
Hey guys, so I'm in front of the comp now and these are just my thoughts. if you have something youd like to add (like an actual paragraph) leave the comment here and ill insert it+attribute you. I'm pretty sure there are more gaps and things I don't know.
- gte910h 17y ago
  Wow that blue bar looks like a mistake the way it follows the screen in Google Chrome. Probably isn't, but it is disconcerting.
  - jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
    it's a part of the theme. We might just integrate the blog into the Cloudomatic.com layout, but we think it makes sense to separate the two out.
    - gte910h 17y ago
      I had a feeling it was, it just felt like that CSS float bug you get sometimes which mimics that behavior.
    - spoondan 17y ago
      May I suggest getting rid of the overridden arrow key behaviors? I don't mean to sound harsh, but I gave up trying to read the post because the behavior of "up" and "down" is weird, unnecessary, and comes with an obnoxious animation. I figured out what they did pretty fast, but then I'd lose my reading place by absently pressing "down" in an attempt to scroll the post. Also, the blue bar might work better if it spanned the entire width of the right column and fixed to the top of the content area. Right now, because of the content that appears above it and all the white-space to the right of it, it feels like it's floating over and blocking content.
jamesshamenski 17y ago
Asana is doing some lofty things in the way of streamlining connectivity through a super snappy interface that really jolts the offline advancements of HTML5. Does anyone know what's going on with 280Atlas? I haven't heard much after they launched in beta about 4 months ago.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  im really excited to see what asana is doing. not only with their own product, but the open source byproducts. I think quora is using some of their ui stuff for the iphone app. it's absolutely awesome. Not sure the timetable on 280atlas, but that's just as exciting to me. It's a great time to be building web apps.

I can not agree more on the point of the Simplified Billing and Monetization Mechanisms. In my opinion it is one of the greatest contributors of the Apple app store success and should be copied in the SaaS world as soon as possible as often as possible.

iseff 17y ago
Agreed. My startup (http://www.appstorehq.com http://www.appstorehq.com) is a multi-platform search and discovery site for mobile apps. One of the platforms we support is mobile web (HTML5) apps. One thing we've quietly rolled out and are private alpha testing is a dead simple payments API. This allows mobile web app developers to monetize their apps with just one API call. I'd love for anyone to check it out and let me know what they think (iseff@appstorehq.com). We don't have docs for it yet (since it's still private), but I created a test app for it and open-sourced that: Fortysquires (a foursquare checkin mobile web app): http://fortysquires.com http://fortysquires.com On AppStoreHQ: http://www.appstorehq.com/fortysquires-mobilewebfoursquareclient-html5web-196344/app http://www.appstorehq.com/fortysquires-mobilewebfoursquarecl... And the source on GitHub: http://github.com/iseff/fortysquires http://github.com/iseff/fortysquires If anyone wants to try it out, I'd be happy to explain further how it can work for you. We hope it helps remove the payments "muck" as well as increase distribution with our hundreds of thousands of UV/month.

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago

Hey guys, so I'm in front of the comp now and these are just my thoughts. if you have something youd like to add (like an actual paragraph) leave the comment here and ill insert it+attribute you. I'm pretty sure there are more gaps and things I don't know.

gte910h 17y ago
Wow that blue bar looks like a mistake the way it follows the screen in Google Chrome. Probably isn't, but it is disconcerting.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  it's a part of the theme. We might just integrate the blog into the Cloudomatic.com layout, but we think it makes sense to separate the two out.
  - gte910h 17y ago
    I had a feeling it was, it just felt like that CSS float bug you get sometimes which mimics that behavior.
  - spoondan 17y ago
    May I suggest getting rid of the overridden arrow key behaviors? I don't mean to sound harsh, but I gave up trying to read the post because the behavior of "up" and "down" is weird, unnecessary, and comes with an obnoxious animation. I figured out what they did pretty fast, but then I'd lose my reading place by absently pressing "down" in an attempt to scroll the post. Also, the blue bar might work better if it spanned the entire width of the right column and fixed to the top of the content area. Right now, because of the content that appears above it and all the white-space to the right of it, it feels like it's floating over and blocking content.

jamesshamenski 17y ago

Asana is doing some lofty things in the way of streamlining connectivity through a super snappy interface that really jolts the offline advancements of HTML5. Does anyone know what's going on with 280Atlas? I haven't heard much after they launched in beta about 4 months ago.

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
im really excited to see what asana is doing. not only with their own product, but the open source byproducts. I think quora is using some of their ui stuff for the iphone app. it's absolutely awesome. Not sure the timetable on 280atlas, but that's just as exciting to me. It's a great time to be building web apps.