Mobile Web and News Apps

Hi,

Among the apps that have been lived and prospered on the Web on
computers but have (at least partially) transitioned to native figure
news apps.

At a high level, native news apps tend to use the following features
that are not available (or not easily so) today on the Web:
* offline
* (somewhat large) local storage
* push notifications (for alerting users of "hot" news)
* easy / persistent authentication

They may also require specific layouts, and would likely benefit from
very smooth performances.

Most of these can be mapped to existing work under development for the
Web.

The Guardian has announced today a new native app they've developed that
exhibits some interesting additional requirements, with a strong focus
on security:
https://guardianproject.info/apps/courier/

It would be interesting to look at these features, and see whether they
map to existing or planned Web capabilities; I might get to that
analysis, but thought I would share the idea in case someone wants to
beat me to it :)

Dom

Received on Friday, 16 May 2014 17:26:45 UTC