Re: Making Web Apps first class citizen

> * isolation from one Web app to another is not a given (e.g. cookies
> from one service can be reused by another) [that is good in some cases,
> but not desirable in others]

The following paper mentioned by Brad Hill in his W3Conf presentation is very interesting and relevant:

"Privilege Separation in HTML5 Applications"

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~devdatta/papers/LeastPrivileges.pdf

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia



On Mar 8, 2013, at 7:33 AM, ext Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:

> One area where Web apps are clearly at disadvantage with native apps is
> in how they're integrated in the whole user environment.
> 
> In particular:
> * they don't show as part of the list of applications (at least on
> Android; iOS let users save Web apps in a way that achieve that
> integration)
> 
> * they're stuck inside tabs inside the browser app; this means they
> don't show as part of the multi-tasks switcher (again, I think iOS is
> somewhat better in that regard, but I'm not 100% sure either)
> 
> * they have very limited storage space, and getting access to larger
> space remains awkward
> 
> * isolation from one Web app to another is not a given (e.g. cookies
> from one service can be reused by another) [that is good in some cases,
> but not desirable in others]
> 
> * they cannot run background services, or be woken through push
> notifications
> 
> Now, that problem has purely technical aspects (some of which are
> already being worked on), but also a lot of business aspects, in
> particular the willingness of platform providers to give Web apps a
> higher standing when they may feel that's in contradiction with their
> interest in a native ecosystem.
> 
> I would be interested in hearing how important people feel this topic
> is, ideas on how to best approach it; and ideally, someone volunteering
> to lead further investigations on it :)
> 
> Dom
> 
> 
>

Received on Friday, 8 March 2013 14:30:20 UTC