iPhone "SDK" To Receive Improvements, Remain Web-based

Offline capabilities akin to Google Gears = cool as hell.

I hope that "for the foreseeable future" is just blowing smoke. We've seen real, awesome 3rd-party apps. Apple's "Web 2.0 Application" BS isn't fooling anyone.

Home Screen placement and offline access is nice, but it does nothing to address the significant speed issues.

Steve Jobs cough*OCD*cough*cough

This controlling bs on iPhone's platform is silly. enough already. :rolleyes:

i'm having trouble understanding the pull of running 3rd party apps off the iphone. to anyone that has done it, what kinds of apps did you install, and what did you use them for?

I guess security's their biggest concern.

Pity it can't use a sandbox and something akin to Java.

It'll be wonderful to see the phone being expanded to allow all sorts of applications to be installed.

Steve Jobs cough*OCD*cough*cough

This controlling bs on iPhone's platform is silly. enough already. :rolleyes:

really, apple is getting as bad as microsoft in the depth of their control

More development capabilities is a good thing. I wish you weren't restricted to the web as such, but I'll take anything they are giving.

MORE :apple: MORE!!!

Why can't there just be a "controlled" system, sort of like Apple's Widgets? Got a cool App? Get it reviewed and approved by Apple and you can download it via iTunes! This way Apple gets the control it wants and innovative apps get to the people. What's the problem with that? C'mon Apple.

I hope that "for the foreseeable future" is just blowing smoke. We've seen real, awesome 3rd-party apps. Apple's "Web 2.0 Application" BS isn't fooling anyone.

Home Screen placement and offline access is nice, but it does nothing to address the significant speed issues.

I somewhat disagree - with several modifications, Webkit apps could possibly maybe come close to matching full-blown applications. But it would need several modifications. The problems include: the address bar, difference between scrolling and drag-and-drop, handling of gestures, amongst many others. If Apple could somehow add events for these...

Perhaps all of the options in the iPhone UI would be exposed as some kind of HTML elements - those on/off switches, the lists of items, etc. They could possibly make app development for iPhone a bit like developing apps in Cocoa but using Javascript as the controlling language. Thus the applications are completely sandboxed, but look and behave exactly like other iPhone applications.

The performance issues with Javascript would still somewhat be a problem, unless Apple can speed up their Javascript engine (unlikely). But (and I'm not sure I like this idea), Apple might be able to make JS accelerators for things like drag-and-drop. An element would be set to draggable, and then Safari would handle the dragging.

Give me offline storage and icon on homepage capabilities..........




I'll upgrade past 1.0.2 in a heartbeat


I'm sure with more system hooks from safari to the phone should help some app devs ( tho I fail to see how this will make the phone more secure )