I would love to see this suit succeed at least a little bit. While I understand the battery ramifications (and I'm sure other stability / security issues too) behind Apple's closed-off ecosystem, it is hugely frustrating to have to develop web applications for iOS.
before the obligatory "web pages should be simple", I'm mostly interested in web applications rather than pages. I'm a big fan of simple, easy-to-use pages on the web. But it's also possible to use html5 tech as a platform for real applications, provided you mostly ignore iOS. Which is frustrating.
Having an open platform would likely lead to a short term fragmentation "page best viewed in Chrome" and a rapid re-leveling as all browsers end up with feature parity and then start competing again on battery life and so on.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 14.7 ms ] threadbefore the obligatory "web pages should be simple", I'm mostly interested in web applications rather than pages. I'm a big fan of simple, easy-to-use pages on the web. But it's also possible to use html5 tech as a platform for real applications, provided you mostly ignore iOS. Which is frustrating.
Having an open platform would likely lead to a short term fragmentation "page best viewed in Chrome" and a rapid re-leveling as all browsers end up with feature parity and then start competing again on battery life and so on.