Comments on: Web Apps Good Enough (For Developers) http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/355/web-apps-good-enough-for-developers Mac & Technology Writings by Daniel Jalkut Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: ssp http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/355/web-apps-good-enough-for-developers/comment-page-1#comment-113323 ssp Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:29:50 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/355/web-apps-good-enough-for-developers#comment-113323 Let's hope Apple just drop Mail from X.5. Not only will that protect us from their HTML stationery, GMail is faster and more reliable anyway… Let’s hope Apple just drop Mail from X.5. Not only will that protect us from their HTML stationery, GMail is faster and more reliable anyway…

]]> By: Jim DeVona http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/355/web-apps-good-enough-for-developers/comment-page-1#comment-113292 Jim DeVona Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:52:16 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/355/web-apps-good-enough-for-developers#comment-113292 Has all the iPhone fever and furor obscured any interesting WWDC news relevant to development on the actual Macintosh? What I look forward to with each new system revision is not necessarily the glitzy keynotable features but the incremental introduction of new tools under the hood (APIs, scripting languages, libraries, etc. -- things that provide useful services and resources for professional and amateur programmers). I suppose Core Animation qualifies, but is there any other information about what we create with Leopard that has emerged free from NDA? Has all the iPhone fever and furor obscured any interesting WWDC news relevant to development on the actual Macintosh? What I look forward to with each new system revision is not necessarily the glitzy keynotable features but the incremental introduction of new tools under the hood (APIs, scripting languages, libraries, etc. — things that provide useful services and resources for professional and amateur programmers). I suppose Core Animation qualifies, but is there any other information about what we create with Leopard that has emerged free from NDA?

]]> By: Matt Harwood http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/355/web-apps-good-enough-for-developers/comment-page-1#comment-113291 Matt Harwood Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:46:08 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/355/web-apps-good-enough-for-developers#comment-113291 Totally agree, Dan! Whilst I was out of the country during WWDC, it seems to me it's a slightly below-par alternative. Web apps on the iPhone are great, don't get me wrong, but arguing them as a replacement for local apps on the iPhone seems weak to me. Totally agree, Dan! Whilst I was out of the country during WWDC, it seems to me it’s a slightly below-par alternative. Web apps on the iPhone are great, don’t get me wrong, but arguing them as a replacement for local apps on the iPhone seems weak to me.

]]> By: michaelGregoire http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/355/web-apps-good-enough-for-developers/comment-page-1#comment-113287 michaelGregoire Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:31:41 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/355/web-apps-good-enough-for-developers#comment-113287 Apple's really blowing it with the iPhone. Sure, it's "sexy"... but I'm sure that I'm not the only one who was ready to buy one in an instant until finding out that it wouldn't be a REAL handheld, á la Palm/Newton. Not for $600. Apple’s really blowing it with the iPhone. Sure, it’s “sexy”… but I’m sure that I’m not the only one who was ready to buy one in an instant until finding out that it wouldn’t be a REAL handheld, á la Palm/Newton. Not for $600.

]]> By: Magnus Nordlander http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/355/web-apps-good-enough-for-developers/comment-page-1#comment-113274 Magnus Nordlander Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:07:34 +0000 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/355/web-apps-good-enough-for-developers#comment-113274 While I do agree that this seems like a very convenient solution for Apple, I am not certain that this is in any way a bad thing for the iPhone. While developing real cocoa apps for the iPhone would be cool, I think this having a real browser on a phone and being able to run web apps is a good thing, and that it opens a lot of opportunities. Different opportunities than being able to run Cocoa apps, but opportunities none the less. What Apple at least could have done though, is some way to save a bookmark in the home menu, which accesses the page without an address bar. While I do agree that this seems like a very convenient solution for Apple, I am not certain that this is in any way a bad thing for the iPhone. While developing real cocoa apps for the iPhone would be cool, I think this having a real browser on a phone and being able to run web apps is a good thing, and that it opens a lot of opportunities. Different opportunities than being able to run Cocoa apps, but opportunities none the less.

What Apple at least could have done though, is some way to save a bookmark in the home menu, which accesses the page without an address bar.

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