[dba-Tech] The state of the web

This is a very interesting article.

I see little difference between observations made in Russia than the ones
made here.

Developer are still going to write most apps for iOS for the next little
while as iPhone users are still willing to pay more but the market is
rapidly changing. I suspect Android will get an ever larger share of the app
market and prices as the number of good products continue to increase.
Windows8 is well behind the curve and not serious predictions could be made
for the next couple of years while waiting to see how well the product is
adopted.

I believe there is quite a difference between apps and full applications and
games. Apps lend themselves well towards specific platforms as they are
small dedicated programs. Re-writing for another OS is not a huge task.
OTOH, when a program is a comprehensive application or game, re-designing
for another platform is a major venture especially for a small developer
team in a Startup company. This is where browser based HTML5 application
come into their own.

Our browsers are still not at the point where a serious application can
achieve the performance matching a proprietary piece of software but I
believe that it is a only a temporary obstacle. JIT browser compiling is
under development and we should expect stellar speeds in the near future.

Being able to write-once and deploy everywhere, on all platforms should be
possible in the future.

Jim     

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov
Shamil
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 2:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The state of the web

Hi Jim --

I have read this morning a poll of mobile apps devs companies
(http://slon.ru/appheroes/kakim-budet-rynok-prilozheniy-v-2013-godu-mnenie-r
azrabotchikov-858560.xhtml (in Russian)) - 66% vs. 33% suppose that native
mobile apps will dominate over HTML5 within the next five years. (Yes, I
realize that the mobile apps developers can be not the best polling source
for "native mobile apps vs. HTM5 apps" question)...

Thank you.

-- Shamil

Вторник,  4 декабря 2012, 12:03  от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>:
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>The web world is more than ever becoming "the" computer world. Most
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development is now done on the web. Whether the Cloud will eventually
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replace most in-house server based systems is debatable and will require
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much more security, management and backup features before it will be
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completely trustable.
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Apple, via Steve Jobs, stopped the whole advance of plug-in technology which
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was patching up browser functionality. It was not done for altruistic
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reasons but to stop third party application from skipping the Apple toll
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booth. But it did have a very important unexpected side-affect. It made
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browser designers dependant on open standards, superfast browsers, gave them
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the ability/responsibility for controlling security, that plug-in would
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never allow and the dominance of HTML5 and CSS3.
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Whether Mark Zuckerberg, likes or dislikes HTML5 is not important as the
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proprietary insecure plug-in world of the past is dead and dying...in fact
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he is trying to buck the tide. How many users will allow another vulnerable
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plug-in to install on their system so they can play a game or two? The other
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option is to use a proprietary server language. It can be built very fast
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but it does not take long before thousands of users will grind the whole
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system to a stop and then huge farms of special servers have to
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integrated...very expensive to own and very expensive to maintain. Those
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type of application solutions, on so many levels are no longer workable.
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The new web world is more and more evolving into distributive open
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standards, where data presentation is managed on the browsers and delegating
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servers for only managing the data marshalling, gathering and storing. 
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of-html5-1.html
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Jim 
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