Hi,
This is more of a philosophical question than a specific technical question:
Are mobile device apps like the ones you download for the iphone or ipad making the world wide web a less desirable medium for [web] application development ?
I ask because I've plunged myself in javascript for last couple months to get a better handle on it (I've always been weak in Javascript but have done a lot with php, html and css purely as a hobby over the last couple years) and had visions of doing something professionally with the web. Recently I purchased an ipad 2 and LOVE the thing. It appears that the apps can offer a unique experience that their web site equivalents cannot. Objective-C looks like an attractive language to learn.
I know HTML5 is brand new as well as CSS3 but is the world wide web losing it's grip? Will we be comparing the WWW to vcrs and 8 tracks in a few years? Or is not even worth comparing because they both can coexist?
This is more of a philosophical question than a specific technical question:
Are mobile device apps like the ones you download for the iphone or ipad making the world wide web a less desirable medium for [web] application development ?
I ask because I've plunged myself in javascript for last couple months to get a better handle on it (I've always been weak in Javascript but have done a lot with php, html and css purely as a hobby over the last couple years) and had visions of doing something professionally with the web. Recently I purchased an ipad 2 and LOVE the thing. It appears that the apps can offer a unique experience that their web site equivalents cannot. Objective-C looks like an attractive language to learn.
I know HTML5 is brand new as well as CSS3 but is the world wide web losing it's grip? Will we be comparing the WWW to vcrs and 8 tracks in a few years? Or is not even worth comparing because they both can coexist?
