Open Web Apps – a talk at State of the Browser in London

On my birthday, 26th of April 2014, I was lucky enough to once again be part of the State of the Browser conference. I gave the closing talk. In it I tried to wrap up what has been said before and remind people about what apps are. I ended with an analysis of how web technologies as we have them now are good enough already or on the way there.

The slides are available on Slideshare:

The video recording of the talk features the amazing outfit I wore, as originally Daniel Appelquist said he’ll be the best dressed speaker at the event.

Open web apps – going beyond the desktop from London Web Standards on Vimeo.

In essence, I talked about apps meaning four things:

• focused: fullscreen with a simple interface
• mobile: works offline
• contained: deleting the icon deletes the app
• integrated: works with the OS and has hardware access
  responsive and fast: runs smooth, can be killed without taking down the rest of the OS

The resources I talked about are:

• LocalForage – making local storage easy by giving the API of localStorage to indexedDB/WebSQL
• A great discussion on installable webapps by Boris Smus
• Overview of the App model for Firefox(OS)
• Report on cross-platform open web apps
• Open web apps on Android and integration in the OS
• Responsive guidelines for FirefoxOS
• The Firefox Marketplace
• Write elsewhere, run on FirefoxOS – a list of apps that have been easily ported to HTML5
• Mozilla Appmaker – WYSIWYG for Open Web Apps

Make sure to also watch the other talks given at State of the Browser – there was some great information given for free. Thanks for having me, London Web Standards team!