As a result, web developers triangulate, attempting to build the best features they can based on the lowest common denominator lest they give up incremental market share (aka, revenue).
The Pokki apps are built on web technology such as HTML5, CSS and Javascript, which makes it easier for web developers to build apps for the desktop.
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In a deeper sense, YouTube is following the classic Google strategy of using the Web as a platform to empower more developers, creating a swarm bigger than anyone else can find.
In fact, in its early days, it didn't have apps at all as the company urged developers to create optimized web apps for the platform similar to what Mozilla is now advocating for its streamlined mobile operating system Boot2Gecko.
On Ubuntu, native and web or HTML5 applications sit as equal citizens and so those developers already developing HTML5 applications will easily gain support for Ubuntu.
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Adobe is seeing increasing pricing of its rich Internet apps that are used by Web developers to create rich media web applications such as online games and interactive visualizations and are superior to typical HTML applications because they allow faster task completion, do not require opening up of multiple applications and are less-error prone.
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Mobile developers are commanding top dollar salaries, as are marketers and Web-savvy sales people.
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Indeed, while flashy, shoot 'em up adventures such as "Halo 3" require years of development time and enormous budgets, many of the developers at the show were more excited about Web sites such as Kongregate, which encourage users to build much less ambitious games.
The significance of the boost should not be lost on advertisers, markets, developers and anyone else seeking to monetize the platform as it surfs the web.
In fact, Grossman agrees that the sites' vulnerabilities weren't Microsoft's fault as much as the result of sloppy Web coding on the part of the Web sites' own developers, who failed to filter user input for manipulative commands.
The companies, such as Heroku, EngineYard and Dotcloud, provide services on top of Amazon EC2 for web developers to more easily launch and maintain websites.
Developers can build standalone mobile Flex applications with the same ease and quality as on web and desktop platforms.
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