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But that's a fallacy - web apps can't be "anything". For example, right now they can't pulse phone's vibrate function, or turn on camera flash LED if your stock

by slaven 15y ago

But that's a fallacy - web apps can't be "anything". For example, right now they can't pulse phone's vibrate function, or turn on camera flash LED if your stock hits a certain price. Yes, maybe some day they will, through a "camera flash control XHTML extension", but by then we'll want those same apps to also toggle the built-in hologram projector.

beaumartinez 15y ago
That's true—I wasn't thinking about the more hardware-focused apps at the time (rather the Apple-won't-allow-that kind). Regarding "camera flash control XHTML extensions", Mozilla's WebAPI[1] is trying to provide a standard API to interact with (namely) phones' software and hardware. [1] http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/08/introducing-webapi/ http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/08/introducing-webapi/