EP32 - Ask Developer Podcast - Web Development Evolution

Agenda

• The simplicity and complexity of the web.
• It used to be just HTML
• Then Javascript
• And CSS
• And million libraries and frameworks.
• Markup as a way for building UIs.
• WPF
• Server side vs client side (the loop)
• Web technologies in non-web scenarios:
• FirefoxOS
• NodeJS Desktop applications (using Node-Webkit https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit)
• Example: https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/ I've used this desktop application and liked it, and a week later discovered that it's a NodeJS app.
• Browsers as Operating Systems:
• Chromebooks
• FirefoxOS
• Single-page applications (SPA) as a way to blur the lines between web applications and desktop applications.
• Google's big push for AngluarJS is part of making web application replace desktop applications.