TR writes their 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008. One of them is Offline Web Applications.
Kevin Lynch (chief software architect at Adobe Systems) believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of both the browser and the desktop.
While the above article is more focused on Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) which is based on HTML and Flash, the core concepts are the same, and are of huge importance to mobility applications.
Related to this see:
- Revised piece Barbara on “Java ME is dead. Long live Java ME.” (and indirectly on the future of mobile apps.)
- The Future of Web Applications is “Local”
- The Next Big Thing in Mobile: Local Applications, and how the iPhone will, and how the OHA and Android can change perceptions
- Revisiting Pain #1 for local applications, and about the new model for mobile applications
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