Hockenberry, Craig. "Apps vs. the Web." A List Apart. 17 Aug. 2010. Web. 15 Sept. 2010. <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/apps-vs-the-web/>.
This article, published in the magazine A List Apart, discusses the implications of the growing “app” phenomenon, and how it applies to web developers. It talks about how apps are basically serving the same information as websites are, and how web development will start to change once “apps” become more prominent. The iPhone has been a large player in this, with a fully functional Safari browser, supporting HTML5 and CSS3 (the new generation of client-side programming languages). It mentions specifically the websites Pie Guy and Showtime, which are using these new web technologies in combination with jQuery to produce results an iPhone app typically would. The final combination is a website that works like an “app.” The article argues that this is where the web is headed. This is an important issue because the web as we know it is slowly being taken over by proprietary, controlled environments like Apple’s iPhone app system. I think that as the app market grows, web designers will dramatically change perspective when it comes to user interface design. A good example of this is the newly designed Twitter.com, which looks much like an iPad app would.
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