Web Apps As First Class Citizens

My biggest ongoing complaint about the new breed of evolved mobile applications is that, at least in some ways, they feel like a tremendous step backwards in terms of developer productivity and ubiquitous access. Sure, the iPhone and Android development platforms let you take advantage of some fantastic device-specific features such as the accelerometer and location based services. And I guess if you're already a Mac developer, using Objective-C and Cocoa feels natural enough for iPhone development.

But as more traditional desktop applications move to the web -- to the cloud -- it just seems downright odd to me that we're forced to learn yet another set of platform-specific tools to develop new interfaces for our existing web apps in the mobile space. Fortunately, new solutions are emerging that make it easier than ever to package existing web apps for "native" mobile deployment...



February 15, 2009
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