







Simply Plural Web App
The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist | jakelazaroff.com
A one-dimensional spectrum can't sufficiently capture the tradeoffs involved in web development.

From the Editor -- Web Apps, Issue 2 Mar/Apr 1997
This is a draft of the editorial of the Mar/Apr 1997 issue of Web Apps Magazine, ISSN #1090-2287. See also: Jan/Feb 1997 Languages Issue May/Jun 1997 Databases Issue editorials, more about WebApps.
Google takes a new approach to native apps with Instant Apps for Android | TechCrunch
Mobile apps often provide a better user experience than browser-based web apps, but you first have to find them, download them, and then try not to forget

What does it look like for the web to lose?
There is always some degree of tension between “native apps” and “the web” as platforms. If you’re going to write a native app for Android devices, well, I’ll qu…

Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
TLDR: “make the web do apps” is not a disruptive strategy. It's like surviving The Great Oxidation Event, then saying “make anaerobes do photosynthesis”. Ok, but the blue-green algae got there first, so photosynthesis is no longer asymmetric. It is symmetric competition.

WICG/isolated-web-apps
Repository for explainers and other documents related to the Isolated Web Apps proposal.
WICG/isolated-web-apps
Repository for explainers and other documents related to the Isolated Web Apps proposal.
Native Apps are Doomed
From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps. All my apps going forward will be progressive web apps. Progressive web apps are web…

Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…)
I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been a Web page? An hour of reverse-engineering later, it is, and it's superior in virtually every way to the "app" that it replaces.


The Group That Rules the Web
Billions of humans will use the Web over the next decade, yet very few of those people are in a position to define what is “the Web” and what isn’t.

Explore Modern Web Apps & PWAs
The Everything App Store. A cross-platform, open app store that puts users and developers first. Search for a new app or list your app in seconds.

Indigo brings the open social web to one app
Indigo brings the open social web to one app | TechCrunch
techcrunch.comWhy I created @skysquare.app—and why I believe the web needs it. "Decentralized protocols represent more than a technical innovation. They offer the possibility that public conversation might once again become part of the commons rather than the exclusive property of any single platform."
Why Skysquare Exists
skysquare.app