A one-dimensional spectrum can't sufficiently capture the tradeoffs involved in web development.
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.
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.
Isolated Web Apps · Issue #799 · mozilla/standards-positions
Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification Specification Title: Isolated Web Apps Specification or proposal URL (if available): Explainer URL (if available): https://github.com/W...
Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison
An objective comparison of multiple frameworks that allow us to "transform" our web apps to desktop applications.
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.
Hypermedia Systems
The revolutionary ideas that empowered the Web. A simpler approach to building applications on the Web and beyond with htmx and Hyperview. Enhancing web applications without using SPA frameworks.
Web Install API Dev Spec
Web Install API Dev Design Spec Author: Amanda Baker, Diego Gonzalez, Kristin Lee, Lia Hiscock Spec status: Last updated: Links: Explainer | Chrome Status | CR bug | UX changes review doc Feature Overview Introduction Goals Non-goals Concepts Interfaces and Interactions JS API changes navig...
Soft Apps
The future of the web relies on open standards, flexible systems, interoperable tools, and first and foremost a focus on the human being.
Comics Lexicons
Hello! I posted an early preview of a Webtoons but AT Protocol app I’ve been working on earlier today. Just some of the creator dashboard pages. @tynanpurdy.com suggested I post here for some feedback. I’ve uploaded the lexicons I have so far to this Github repo (sorry not tangled). I’m not really a data model person or a comic creator so I feel like I’m the worst person to define these things. And frankly, my indecision may be holding back the actual development of the AppView. It feels wron...
Theming atproto · blog.damato.design
Taking Mise en Mode into the new web standard
Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era
The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, the people building web alternatives are also entering their Post-Naive Era. Here are the names to know.
Why 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