Re: Mobile Web and News Apps

Adding another few more "*" that I've seen... 

On May 16, 2014 at 1:27:05 PM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux (dom@w3.org) wrote:
> Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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

* subscription (with automated payment). 
* automated content delivery + push notification for when fresh content is available. 

> 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 :)
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> Dom
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Received on Friday, 16 May 2014 18:11:54 UTC