Comments on: Stand-alone web applications on the iPhone? Yes, please. http://beastwith.in/2009/01/16/stand-alone-web-applications-on-the-iphone-yes-please/ A mental brouhaha, est. 1996. Thu, 24 May 2012 00:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: WyldKard http://beastwith.in/2009/01/16/stand-alone-web-applications-on-the-iphone-yes-please/comment-page-1/#comment-576 WyldKard Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:59:51 +0000 http://mendax.org/2009/01/16/stand-alone-web-applications-on-the-iphone-yes-please/#comment-576 <p>Especially true given the availability of OS X widgets. Apple could have standardized the format such that people could buy widgets for use on the iPhone (via the AppStore) that could also run as an OS X widget. That would also support the idea of getting users hooked on the idea of using their favorite widgets on a mobile platform.</p> Especially true given the availability of OS X widgets. Apple could have standardized the format such that people could buy widgets for use on the iPhone (via the AppStore) that could also run as an OS X widget. That would also support the idea of getting users hooked on the idea of using their favorite widgets on a mobile platform.

]]> By: Will http://beastwith.in/2009/01/16/stand-alone-web-applications-on-the-iphone-yes-please/comment-page-1/#comment-575 Will Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:28:05 +0000 http://mendax.org/2009/01/16/stand-alone-web-applications-on-the-iphone-yes-please/#comment-575 <p>Yea, I don't understand why they didn't do this right out of the bag. All they really needed to do was, effectively, following the Dashboard model and let folks install "widgets" as applications.</p> <p>When you add in the current ability for folks to use Web Database features (basically, exposing SQLLite to Javascript), and you really have a slick platform with a lot of power and readily available.</p> Yea, I don’t understand why they didn’t do this right out of the bag. All they really needed to do was, effectively, following the Dashboard model and let folks install “widgets” as applications.

When you add in the current ability for folks to use Web Database features (basically, exposing SQLLite to Javascript), and you really have a slick platform with a lot of power and readily available.

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