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The web has a long time to catch up in terms of technology (iOS has poor support for APIs that would make web apps compete with native) and culture (most busine

The web has a long time to catch up in terms of technology (iOS has poor support for APIs that would make web apps compete with native) and culture (most businesses don't care that their app is slow and bloated and defer resources to the app).

overcast 10y ago
What do the majority of web apps need, to compete with native apps? 99% of them definitely DO NOT need to be native.
- j_r_f 10y ago
  I'd say the one really important thing web is missing is notifications for when your not on the site. I don't really know how a browser could ever implement in a similar fashion.
  - overcast 10y ago
    Email, or SMS? Though I don't see why Apples Push Notification Service, can't be opened up for the web side. They are already going through Apple servers correct? Safari has push notifications, let's combine the two.
  - mydigitalself 10y ago
    This already exists, just not fully on mobile yet, but it's coming. http://w3c.github.io/push-api/ http://w3c.github.io/push-api/ https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notifications-on-the-open-web https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif...