The future of the web relies on open standards, flexible systems, interoperable tools, and first and foremost a focus on the human being.
Can we build WeChat Mini Apps using open web standards?
A specification for building mini apps that work with QR codes and open web standards.
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.
Introducing Web Applets: build your first AI-native app · Luma
Rupert here - I'll introduce you to the Web Applets open standard & SDK, and how to use it to create rich, graphical client-side apps that can be used by both…
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.
Introducing Web Applets, Rupert Manfredi
Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison
An objective comparison of multiple frameworks that allow us to "transform" our web apps to desktop applications.
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.
Patchwork Notebook
Internal notes from our ongoing research into soft, softer and softest software
Apple's Assault on Standards - Infrequently Noted
By subverting the voluntary nature of open standards, Apple has defanged them as tools that users can employ against the totalising power of native apps in their digital lives. This high-modernist approach is antithetical to the foundational commitments of internet standards bodies and, over time, erode them.
The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development — Smashing Magazine
An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets.
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...
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.
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
