Standardizing Web Apps Across Devices
Posted On Friday, January 28, 2011 at at 12:00 PM by Dianne Kennedyi M reading the latest tech blogs, searching for what Apple announced at the event on January 27 in San Francisco. Although blogged about heavily before the event, I cannot find a mention today! Has anyone run across earth-shaking Apple news? A new iPad perhaps? Comment if you know!
Good news I did come across on the Apple website comes out of the W3C. As I reported from CES, it appears publishers will have 3 operating systems to consider when developing digital editions of magazines where writing native apps has been the obvious choice. What this means is that to send a digital magazine edition to the iPad and Galaxy means that native apps for interactivity on each device must be written. This increases both the effort and expense to deliver to each. Yikes!
The World Wide Web Consortium appears to be tackling the standardization of touch-screen support which may help when it comes to standardized Web apps. Today the W3C published an editor's draft of a new touch-screen standard for Web apps. This standard promises to make the development of digital editions easier because Web apps written to this standard could work across devices. The standard promises to deliver the ambitious goal of tackling subtleties such as the pressure of a touch event and the radius of the spot being touched.
Dianne Kennedy
