[FRIAM] Fwd: Apple Developer Connection News #484

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Owen Densmore wrote:
> The reality distortion field surrounding Jobs may actually consider  
> webapps good enough.  
IMO, Apple has a hands-down superior mobile web browser with the iPhone 
and that's enough of a reason for buy one compared to competing PDAs.  
Supposing that Windows Mobile, etc. soon catch up on the usability 
front, by the time the next generation iPhones come along, that they are 
limited to webapps doesn't need to mean HTML driven by a server.   It 
can also mean richer markup like XUL/XBL or SVG, or a native components 
driven by scripts or the DOM (e.g. Flash, Silverlight/XAML, Google 
Gears).   XUL/SVG stuff is already in Safari, for example.

Mobile devices have terribly slow data communications, so forcing 
developers to invent concise application protocols seems a reasonable 
approach to keep the mobile devices from getting bloated and slow.   
Even on the desktop, projects like Adobe's Apollo or the Pyro desktop or 
Apple's Dashboard Widgets seek to use web markup as an organizing 
principle.   Pyro defers to Firefox to be a window manager!    
http://www.pyrodesktop.org/Main_Page

Marcus