The Death of Binary Software: End User Software Moves to the Web

Taivalsaari, Antero; Mikkonen, Tommi; Anttonen, Matti; Salminen, Arto

doi:10.1109/c5.2011.9

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“…The software industry is currently experiencing a paradigm shift towards web-based software [40]. The majority of new software applications intended for desktop computers are web applications.…”

Section: Future Of Browser Gamesmentioning

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On the development of browser games - Technologies of an emerging genre

Vanhatupa

2011

2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices

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Browser games are played directly in web browsers. Consequently they do not need software installation. A modern browser game is a sophisticated combination of client and server software. Nowadays there is a wide range of different technologies used to implement browser games. Traditional implementation technologies have gained new competitors, browser plugin players, which allow sophisticated graphics. In this paper we present technologies that are used to implement browser games and also accessories used in those. Towards the end of the paper we also discuss the future of the browser game genre.

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Section: Future Of Browser Gamesmentioning

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On the development of browser games - Technologies of an emerging genre

Vanhatupa

2011

2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices

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“…With respect to location data, the notion of utilizing client geographic location to customize web media has been around for at least a decade and in the last few years HTML5 and related technologies have significantly extended standardsbased support for a large number of useful features that promote the web as a first class application platform [13,14].…”

Section: Mobile App and Mobile Web Appmentioning

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Accuracy, Security, and Architecture Impacts and Challenges of Mobile and Web Technologies: Geolocation Field Data Collection in Washington State Water Resources

Miller¹,

Chung²,

Escrig³

et al. 2014

IJCA

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The purpose of this paper is to examine accuracy, security, and architecture impacts and challenges of mobile and web technologies through the case study of collecting geolocation field data in Washington (WA) State water resources. Effective management of water as a public resource relies on the capture, storage, and retrieval of accurate geographic position data. This is also true of a broad range of business domains beyond water resources, such as earth sciences, city planning, and navigation to name a few. Application developers must choose how to capture this information (with enough accuracy to be useful for its intended application) and get that data to a place where it can be processed and used. A traditional monotonic application using a Global Positioning System (GPS) and a mobile app using a smartphone are available today. The advent of HTML 5 now allows the development of a mobile web app, which is not dependent on any particular smartphone platform. These multiple technical options lead to two research questions: How does an HTML5 mobile web app solution work in terms of accuracy, security, and architecture, compared with a GPS-based solution and a mobile native app solution for collecting geolocation field data? And second, as HTML5 mobile web apps are a relatively new technology, what best practices can we uncover to assist in the process of choosing between an HTML5 mobile web app and a mobile native app, and also what are the best practices for building a mobile web app that can operate offline? To answer these questions, we build an HTML5 mobile web app called "LocationSharpener" for collecting GPS locations leveraging three of the new HTML5 features: IndexedDB, AppCache, and GeoLocation. We use the mobile web app to collect locations of water resources facilities like wells and diversions and analyze how accurately the app collects the geolocation data. We apply threat risk modeling to the mobile web app to analyze its security and privacy compared to that of the native mobile app approach. In addition, by documenting the architecture of the mobile web app with multiple views, we analyze how HTML5 affects the architecture and present best practices for building a mobile web app that can operate online and offline. The analysis of location accuracy shows the HTML5 mobile web app approach provides acceptable location accuracy even when offline. Threat modeling demonstrates that, in contrast to native mobile apps, mobile web apps offer a clear advantage to users and developers: an isolated execution environment makes it more difficult for a malicious mobile web app to read private data; As an outcome of the architecture documentation we also propose new best practices of developing a mobile web app using HTML5: the developer must consider two subsystems for online and offline use cases and a sequence of connected, disconnected, and connected deployment modes. Also, standards-based web apps are portable across virtually any operating system. This also eases the burden on developers, since ...

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“…The conceptual idea of Lively3D is based on previous project The Lively Kernel [5]. Lively Kernel was 2D window manager and IDE that was executed in the browser.…”

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“…To support the above initiatives, the need to use plugins is being seriously challenged by two recently introduced technologies, HTML5 and WebGL, as already pointed out in [5]. These new technologies provide support for creating desktoplike applications that run inside the browser (HTML5) and enable direct access to graphics facilities from web pages (WebGL).…”

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Lively3D: Building a 3D Desktop Environment as a Single Page Application

Voutilainen¹,

Mattila²,

Mikkonen³

2014

Acta Cybern

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The Web has rapidly evolved from a simple document browsing and distribution environment into a rich software platform, where desktop-style applications are treated as first class citizens. Despite the associated technical complexities and limitations, it is not unusual to find complex applications that build on the web as their only platform, with no traditional installable application for the desktop environment -such systems are simply accessed via a web page that is downloaded inside the browser and once loading is completed, the application will begin its execution immediately. With the recent standardization efforts, including HTML5 and WebGL in particular, compelling, visually rich applications are increasingly supported by the the browsers. In this paper, we demonstrate the new facilities of the browser as a visualization tool, going beyond what is expected of traditional web applications. In particular, we demonstrate that with mashup technologies, which enable combining already existing content from various sites into an integrated experience, the new graphics facilities unleashes unforeseen potential for visualizations.

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The Death of Binary Software: End User Software Moves to the Web

Cited by 26 publications

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On the development of browser games - Technologies of an emerging genre

On the development of browser games - Technologies of an emerging genre

Accuracy, Security, and Architecture Impacts and Challenges of Mobile and Web Technologies: Geolocation Field Data Collection in Washington State Water Resources

Lively3D: Building a 3D Desktop Environment as a Single Page Application

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