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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Web applications and interfaces definitely have their place. Recent and ongoing developments in the web standards ( [url=http://w3.org]W3C[/url] and [url=http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/]ECMA[/url] ) and "semi" standards ( [url=http://www.whatwg.org/]WHAT[/url] ), along with [url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/]Flash 9[/url], extend the possibilities of web applications and interfaces. WebApps also free the users from ONE computer. It's possible to use them anywhere on any device/computer, be it at work, home, on your mobile, wii, ... they also ease collaborative work compared to most native applications. The examples of succesful web applications are many : photo management/sharing, project management, time tracker, mail client, diagrams, spreadsheets, calendars, word processing, ... Of course, although a [url=http://news.com.com/2100-7345_3-6163015.html]few[/url] [url=http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9689909-2.html?tag=blog]recent[/url] [url=http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9688375-2.html?tag=blog]annoucements[/url], some things remain exclusive to native applications such as video editing, 3D apps, advanced image editing, video post processing, ... but how many people actually need or use such tools ? Web applications are "good enough" to cover the needs of the vast majority. [quote]Have anyone made a webapp here that was successful? Are the UIs comparable in any way to production apps?[/quote]Define "successful". Last year I worked on a pilot [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7O_UOiJ2oI]project of web based interface for mobile phone[/url]. It took over the idle screen and had quite a few functionnalities : location based searches and traffic informations, maps, news reader, weather forecast, subscription status look up, ... At the end of the project, it turns out that the users found our web UI easier to use than Windows Mobile. If not a great success it is a least one step forward. Speaking of web based UI, it is no mistery that most of the interface of the browser on Wii is web based and it works pretty well. Mozilla browsers' UI is also web based and it is without a doubt a success and ease the cross platform development. [url=http://www.p01.org/][sigrotate][img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_love.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_love_small.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_charly.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_dk.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_reason.gif[/img]\|[img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_galaxy.gif[/img][/sigrotate][/url] Loading...
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