HighEdWebDev 2007four days beforeThe HighEdWebDev 2007 conference begins tomorrow and I am all ready to…My iPhone SDK

Call Me Gearhead2007So, I am playing with Google Gears and I’ve got to tell…So, my good friend Steve spills the beans about the upcoming SDK. The crowd screams like girls at the Beatles concert. Even ever-curmudgeonly Dave eeks a “hooray”. And that’s a big deal, my reading acquaintance. Now, I don’t own an iPhone, but I play with one at the local store every other week. And I also am a gearhead, as we’ve discussed before. And, I watch google-gears and
WHATWG groups like a hawk whenever there’s talk about gear-related stuff.

With all that, it is only logical to assume that I am siding with Chris on the mournful thoughts for the Web-based application development on the delectable slice of glass-sided aluminum. Because in my opinion, Safari 3 is only five tiny steps away from being a full-fledged application platform.

These steps are:

• Support of offline storage and state detection per HTML5 spec
• Client-side database storage support per HTML5 spec
• Threading/Worker model from Gears
• WebRunner
  -like chromeless launch support
• App install feature as recently proposed on Gears Engineers Group

HTML5 Wrapper for Gearsfive days afterThis is possibly the lowest-hanging fruit ever. After WebKit folks released their…The Perspective Ladderlinks here, 2022It pains me to admit how familiar this rung is to me.…The “nice-to-haves” and “coming-soons” may include direct TCP Network connections, history and browsing context management, and other neat things from the HTML5 spec, but those first five is what could really make the Web applications first-class. Think about it.