State of the web - HTML5
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- jtb260
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Your essentially asserting that people trend towards native mobile apps over mobile browser experiences. I don't think that the data bears out your argument. Two points:
1. In the past year nearly all the analytics I have seen for our clients has indicated that one third to half of traffic is from mobile devices. (Determined by browser and view port stats).
2. If people are opting for a native app over a mobile site than it's only because the browser experience is so poor. There are other factors like convenience of access which I agree would contribute to this.
Overall I don't believe that the cause is related to technology or bandwidth. The cause is obtuse clients, lazy design and inefficient development. I think many clients aren't willing to make affordances for a truly mobile first approach to design. Designers and developers are struggling to adopt this as a best practice.
Dedicated mobile sites and many responsive sites strip away content and functionality as the viewports diminish in size. While native apps are designed to support more complex functionality and rich content. If the mobile sites were design from the mobile experience first I think this would be less and less the case. Simplicity by reduction is a lazy way to solve the problem of delivering information on a small screen.
The presentation layer is still where many designers are focusing their attention, devoting a lot of time to lush photoshop comps of a home page, rather than prototyping more complex functionality for mobile. Essentially the work it takes to create a site that delivers in the modern web environment has doubled or tripled while clients expectations on the amount of time that should take has remained the same.
Also, jquery is on it's way out. Angular seems to be the new hotness.
- +1,000 for Angular.jsCrack_Junkie
- not heard much of angular js, ill check it out, thanks.Hombre_Lobo