Re: Mobile, Web and Multi-device

Hi all,
Thank you for introducing many views.

> (I also have another document on the strengths of Web apps vs native
> apps, but it still needs further work before I bring it here)

I am very interested in this document! And I have a personal view about this.

I like the primordial WWW, therefore I have been involved in the W3C so far. I think that the opening sentence of the Wikipedia's article of the "World Wide Web" shows the primordial characteristic of the WWW; "system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet" [1]  I think that it is a great achievement of the WWW that was not able to be accomplished by other systems ever.

I personally have a broad interpretation of it as follows; Autonomous systems cooperate through Web browsers. As a result, the user can use WWW like a global meta system.

On the other hand, probably applications that Web technologies and Web browsers were used will be called WebApps. However, it is attractive for me as "Web" apps only when they have the characteristic of the primordial Web mentioned above. But this sense is not so common :'-( 

But I can read the opinion like this here.  http://www.w3.org/blog/2012/07/interview-ora-lassila/

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

Regards,

Satoru Takagi



> > Since I do not have the definition completely and I am not good at
> > English, I would like to know your understanding.
> > What differs between "mobile web" and "mobile web applications"? Is
> > one of the two a subset of other? Or does one of the two have a part
> > which is not contained on the other?
> 
> I think "mobile Web" stands for "Web used on mobile" (with all the
> caveats of the previous discussions around what "mobile" itself means).
> 
> Web applications are probably a subset of that, although what
> constitutes a Web app, and how it differs from a Web site is known to be
> a hard-to-decide problem; some references on this:
> http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2013/07/web-sites-vs-web-apps-what-the-experts-think/
> http://people.w3.org/~dom/archives/2010/08/what-is-a-web-application/
> (if I dare cite myself :)
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-closingthegap/2013May/thread.html#msg3
> 
> 
> > Moreover, what differs between "apps" and "web apps"? What is the
> > reason that we expect that "web apps" attracts everyone (not only
> > developer but also consumer)?
> 
> So, I have a draft document that touches upon this that I was thinking
> of submitting to this group:
> http://www.w3.org/2013/07/mobile-gap-analysis/taxonomy.html
> 
> It's drafty and will clearly need to discussed in details, but at least
> it hopefully provides a starting point in defining the right terms.
> 
> (I also have another document on the strengths of Web apps vs native
> apps, but it still needs further work before I bring it here)
> 
> Dom
> 
> 
>

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