{"id":5677,"date":"2013-04-13T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T14:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2013-04-13T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T14:32:58","slug":"its-not-a-web-app-its-an-app-you-install-from-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=5677","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It\u2019s not a web app. It\u2019s an app you install from the web.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href='http:\/\/blog.forecast.io\/its-not-a-web-app-its-an-app-you-install-from-the-web\/'>Forecast Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;if it looks and feels like an app, and lives on your home screen, it\u2019s an App. With a capital \u201cA.\u201d I\u2019d go as far as to say the <a href=\"http:\/\/forecast.io\/\">best weather App<\/a> in the world right now is a web app. I may be biased, of course, but the fact that Forecast is even a contender is kind of a big deal. It raises the question: why aren\u2019t there more high quality mobile web apps that have the look, feel, and performance of their native counterparts?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of my favorite apps are &#8220;just&#8221; web apps or bookmarked mobile sites on my home screen: <a href=\"http:\/\/forecast.io\/\">Forecast<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/m.cotrip.org\/\">COTrip<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/opensnow.com\/\">OpenSnow<\/a>, TestFlight, <a href=\"http:\/\/GameTonight.in\">GameTonight<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/untappd.com\">Untappd<\/a>, Techmeme and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know many folks outside the web industry that realize this is a feature. I hope apps like Forecast continue to pave the way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Forecast Blog: &#8230;if it looks and feels like an app, and lives on your home screen, it\u2019s an App. With a capital \u201cA.\u201d I\u2019d go as far as to say the best weather App in the world right now is a web app. I may be biased, of course, but the fact that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-internet","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}