Fast and furious

[Ashley Aitken]

On 13/06/2007, at 4:21 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 12-Jun-2007, at 11:36, Lon Varscsak wrote:
>> Yeah, I think this is part of the confusion.  They aren't Dashboard
>> "widgets" (which, would be "web technology" based, but yet remain
>> client side) they're just web apps....on the web.  So there is no
>> local storage (cookies maybe?) nor the ability to run the application
>> when your not connected to EDGE (assuming that's even a  
>> possibility on
>> the iPhone).
>
> How can you talk about this as if you know something more than  
> anyone else does?

He can, because this is what Web apps are like, including Web 2.0 apps.

Unless they are planning to use something like Google Gears (very  
unlikely at present).

These are just fancy, dynamic, Web pages.

>
>> Essentially Steve announced that you can write web apps that the
>> iPhone can visit with Safari....uhh, well duh. :)  The only  
>> difference
>> is that you can dial a number.
>
> No, I don't think that's at all the case.
>
> The fact is, we don't know for sure what the full functionality is,  
> but Apple's vision of Web2+AJAX seems pretty evolved to me.  I will  
> be interested to see what comes along.

We disagree again.

Steve and Apple's press releases seem to be clear these are Web 2.0  
apps.

The only extra thing is the ability (probably from Javascript) to  
interact with the native apps.

Cheers,
Ashley.

PS  For me Web2.0 apps (technically) are just mashups of Web apps and  
services using DHTML (DOM + Javascript + CSS + HTML) and  
XmlHttpRequest (able to update content without refreshing the page).