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To me, a platform is how a user interacts with your app. An iOS user interacts with iOS apps, and Windows user with Windows apps. Web apps are to be used by web
by x0054 13y ago
To me, a platform is how a user interacts with your app. An iOS user interacts with iOS apps, and Windows user with Windows apps. Web apps are to be used by web users, regardless of the OS their browser runs on. So, it's fair to say that someone who develops an app who's front end runs on the web, is developing for the Web/HTML5 platform, not for the what ever OS your backend happens to run on.
You may think about your self as a Linux developer, but you are developing for the web platform, because that's where your users are.
- CmonDev 13y agoWhat if it's a Windows app with a seamlessly integrated web-browser - something like Awesomium? What about NaCl Chrome apps? HTML5 is a language, maybe a technology but not a platform. Web is probably something different as well as it can't exist without some other actual platform running underneath.
- x0054 13y agoWindows App or Linux App that just happens to use HTML5 interface, but is installed and runs locally is a Windows or Linux Platform App. A website is necessarily a "Web Platform." Otherwise, you would have to argue that Google or Facebook primarily target Linux as their platform. Picture this. An alien lends on planet earth and asks you a question "What does this Google company do?" What do you answer: a. At Google they develop a search app that run on Linux? or b. At Google they develop the most popular WEB search engine.
- lttlrck 13y agoA Linux appliance that happens to have a Web UI is not web platform.