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thing is that mobile web has not yet integrated into mobile platform per-se. Apps have access to far more features of the OS than web pages. I think if browsers

thing is that mobile web has not yet integrated into mobile platform per-se. Apps have access to far more features of the OS than web pages. I think if browsers would be able to expose and integrate web-apps something that can be a blend of an app and webservice then one will see how limited and stupid using isolated app is. Open services promote integration and availability of things you want to do.. for example I can't instapaper an article in my safari browser, I am sure I could've fixed that if there'd been a layer of script language between OS apps and web apps. It is only a sliver but it has been annoying me quite a bit. If the mobile ecosystem will be scriptable and integratable then one can make web be a first class citizen on the mobile. For now browser is a pretty crummy way to do web on a mobile device. Screen is too small, value added features are only available to apps only. Maybe for a good reason - technological one, battery and security(those are the problems to solve). Yet I would like to program my alarm clock from the web and have it send me some news for the time when I got up ... something like that (I am brain storming here) 2c

smrtinsert 13y ago
App interoperability is also huge in Android thanks to Intents. No such feature exists in the web space and none are anywhere on the horizon - the app experience is simply the better experience.
Iftheshoefits 13y ago
What you're talking about isn't "a sliver." Given the underlying architecture of the various mobile OSes (FireFox OS excluded, perhaps--I don't know enough about it to say), it's actually quite probably a very big task. I'm sure there are masochistic people who write code for browsers who'd love to maintain the browser-API abstraction over N OS API implementations. I'm not so sure there is a sufficient number of them to get such a task off the ground. It's not some trivial matter of simply implementing something like an HTTP-based API.

smrtinsert 13y ago

App interoperability is also huge in Android thanks to Intents. No such feature exists in the web space and none are anywhere on the horizon - the app experience is simply the better experience.

Iftheshoefits 13y ago

What you're talking about isn't "a sliver." Given the underlying architecture of the various mobile OSes (FireFox OS excluded, perhaps--I don't know enough about it to say), it's actually quite probably a very big task. I'm sure there are masochistic people who write code for browsers who'd love to maintain the browser-API abstraction over N OS API implementations. I'm not so sure there is a sufficient number of them to get such a task off the ground. It's not some trivial matter of simply implementing something like an HTTP-based API.