Finishing Up and Web-based Apps

The majority of my thesis is now complete and I am getting down to re-arranging, adding more research and citations and then creating some visual mockups for application and database design. While adding some additional research I ran into an interesting article in Mobile Apps for Museums, chpt 3 by Ted Forbes.

This article discusses why making a website that works like an application instead of an actual app you download can be preferable in a lot of ways especially with the advent of HTML5, a new web standard that allows embedded video and audio files and makes a page run much faster and simulate an local application. I already had a section on having a webversion of the app that would use HTML5, but he brings up some good points where just the web version alone could be the best way to go.

I still plan to have both native apps and a web version for ease of use and peoples preferences, but it is always interesting to run into some research that supports an idea you already had, but then goes into more detail that makes you think, hmm this is really on to something.