OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/25280/Extending_Native_Features_To_HTML5_Web_Apps Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 21 May 2013 08:30:46 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?495582 http://www.osnews.com/thread?495582 HTML is amazing but I'd like the browser to start supporting WebForms 2.0 because this:



Is still not well supported. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments RE: ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?495602 http://www.osnews.com/thread?495602 Webforms is dead, the work done there has been integrated into HTML5.

http://developers.whatwg.org/the-input-element.html#attr-input-type Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (johnnysaucepn) Comments web apps http://www.osnews.com/thread?495618 http://www.osnews.com/thread?495618 What is the point?... make it native.

Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP.... did Bjarne Stroustrup invent this garbage too? It seems like it is complex for the purpose of being complex.

If you want to publish information, use the web. If you want to play games, have multi-touch, save data to the hard drive, etc... use a native application Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments Why not just contribute to Phonegap http://www.osnews.com/thread?495619 http://www.osnews.com/thread?495619 I don't understand why this is a separate library. Why not just improve Phonegap, which does the same thing? Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (leos) Comments Security risks? http://www.osnews.com/thread?495643 http://www.osnews.com/thread?495643 Are there security risks to this? Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jack_perry) Comments Similar to Mozilla's WebAPI? http://www.osnews.com/thread?495729 http://www.osnews.com/thread?495729 https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI#Use_Cases Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (another_sam) Comments RE: Security risks? http://www.osnews.com/thread?495827 http://www.osnews.com/thread?495827 No, these webapps get installed locally. They have as much access to the rest of the system as any other app (which obviously depends on what you allow it to do). Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lennie) Comments RE[2]: Security risks? http://www.osnews.com/thread?495911 http://www.osnews.com/thread?495911
No, these webapps get installed locally. They have as much access to the rest of the system as any other app (which obviously depends on what you allow it to do).


I don't see how your explanation justifies the negative answer. Isn't the fact that they are installed locally, and have "access to the filesystem" (using the description above) precisely a worse security risk?

(I also don't see why I was modded down for asking a sincere question. I know that wasn't you, Lennie; I'm just saying.) Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jack_perry) Comments RE: web apps http://www.osnews.com/thread?496253 http://www.osnews.com/thread?496253 Why the mod-down? Other than the not-so-gentle dig at the web languages, I feel the sentiments of this comment are not far off being spot-on.

Granted, I've seen some pretty funky things in web browsers these days, with WebGL and what not. Gmail and associated apps are pretty awesome too, but there is a serious down side to a lot of them.

For starters, try looking at the article posted a couple of days back on this site called: "What's It Like to Be Hacked?"

Generally speaking, I still prefer native apps and for a lot of things (*most* things) where there is no other way of going about day-to-day business.

I know a lot of people want to see the browser break the back of Windows as the defacto desktop interface of choice, but I just have the feeling this is never going to happen. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dr.Mabuse) Comments