Comments on: Mobile Web Apps: A Briefing Paper http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/2011/03/02/mobile-web-apps-a-briefing-paper/ Cetis Blogs Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:10:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 By: mark http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/2011/03/02/mobile-web-apps-a-briefing-paper/#comment-350 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:10:15 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/?p=145#comment-350 Thanks, Rhodri. I’ll have a look.

]]> By: Rhodri Thomas http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/2011/03/02/mobile-web-apps-a-briefing-paper/#comment-349 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:59:29 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/?p=145#comment-349 Hi Mark, an interesting and timely paper for us – our mobile learning systems implementation isn’t a web app per se, but certainly closer to this than other (moodle community) offerings to date.

Hopefully you’ll likewise find our notes of interest: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/mLearn

]]> By: mark http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/2011/03/02/mobile-web-apps-a-briefing-paper/#comment-348 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:57:42 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/?p=145#comment-348 No, you’re right, not everybody is. But the audience for this briefing paper IS educational institutions. Therefore the benefits of ease of development, control and – above all – deployment are the purposes of the overview.

I in no way believe that Web Apps should be THE WAY and that Native Apps are not. But I believe that there has to be a viable solution to the fragmentation problem for certain sectors and markets. And I believe that the web is that solution.

Maybe not a perfect one. But a viable and improving one.

]]> By: Norbert Colon http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/2011/03/02/mobile-web-apps-a-briefing-paper/#comment-347 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:48:03 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/?p=145#comment-347 Not everybody is an institution. The User Experience of a web app will always be at best sub-optimal. Web apps – let’s party like it’s…er….1997…

]]> By: mark http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/2011/03/02/mobile-web-apps-a-briefing-paper/#comment-346 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:10:46 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/?p=145#comment-346 And your point is?

For institutions, having the app in a place they have immediate and unrestricted access to gives them greater control over maintenance and updating, etc. Their “web server” may well sit in the cloud on Amazon for example…doesn’t necessarily mean it’s sitting in a room on campus.

The point is that – again, for educational institutions – having a web-based, hosted app rather than a native app with the app store/marketplace conditions enforced as they are, can be an advantage.

Not sure if your comment is supposed to be a snipe or not, erm…”Norbert”.. ;)

]]> By: Norbert Colon http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/2011/03/02/mobile-web-apps-a-briefing-paper/#comment-345 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:52:46 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/mark/?p=145#comment-345 “Advantages – You can host the app on your own web server.”

Right…

“…technology now advances crabwise, i.e. backwards…” Umberto Eco

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