Open Web Apps – a talk at State of the Browser in London
Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 at 6:21 pm
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!