Tag Archives: web apps
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Building Better Single-Page Web Apps

Webdesign

Single-page, application-style websites offer web developers a way to replicate the user experience of native apps, particularly on mobile devices. Indeed, the application design model — that is, a single webpage that never needs to refresh or reload — is the basis for some of the web’s most popular sites like Facebook and Twitter. But such app-based sites often break fundamental tenets of the web, eschewing HTML source for JavaScript, breaking the browser’s back button and removing the ability to link deep into the application.

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Angry Birds Attack Web, Web Wins

Webdesign

Angry Birds, currently one of the most popular games for iOS, Android and other platforms has made the leap to the web. Rovio, the company behind the game, has unveiled a web-based version of Angry Birds at Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco. You can install the new Angry Birds for the web as an app in Google’s Chrome browser, or just play from the URL, chrome.angrybirds.com , which works just find in any modern web browser.

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Thousand of APIs Paint a Bright Future for the Web

Webdesign

ProgrammableWeb’s stat for API protocols and data formats Once a novel idea that seemed limited to Flickr, the web-based API is now everywhere you turn — Twitter, Foursquare, Google Maps and thousands of other sites offer up their data in the form of an API. APIs mean that third-party developers can build their own tools and mashups, which in turn helps to fuel the popularity of the web service