[Rather annoyingly, Bill's reply didn't seem to come though on the newsgroup version.]
On 21/05/12 19:22, Bill Walker wrote: > I spent my first few months at Mozilla telling people that Apps and web > pages are the same. But then I had these two experiences: > > 1. When I first made birdwalker.com <http://birdwalker.com> into an App > and launched it in a chromeless window, I was so stoked. After only a > few minutes, however, I realized that it really doesn't work very well > without a back button; and that it looks completely non-App-like when > the whole window scrolls and the text has lots of blue hyperlinks. It's > a pretty good web page, but a lousy App. > > 2. Conversely, when I use Lucid Chart (which I ADORE), i think it looks > really goofy when it has to create its own menu bar within a browser > window; if it could take over the native menu and lose the back button, > it would be indistinguishable from a "real" App; IMHO it's a funny > looking web page. > > So, while web pages and Apps share a lot, I don't think they're the same > from a UX point of view. There are web pages which are more appy, and ones which are more hypertexty (I prefer that to "webby") and a gradation in between - but I think we shouldn't make technological restrictions on what modes people use a particular bit of the web in. And we can't know what experiences people will have. E.g. if a computer has a hardware Back button, birdwalker.com will work much better in a chromeless window. Lucid Chart suddenly looks a lot better in Firefox 4.0 if the user presses F11. Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
