The document discusses the evolution of the web from progressive web apps to native mobile apps and back again to progressive web apps. It notes that early mobile web faced issues like small screens, poor connectivity and unreliable browsers, leading to the rise of native apps. However, app distribution issues like slow updates and the "walled garden" approach of app stores have led to a renewed interest in progressive web apps that work offline but do not require app stores, allowing for more open distribution like the original web.

1. A New Hope – the web strikes back
Chris Heilmann @codepo8, Awwwards, New York City…, June 2016
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dudeoflego/5104751355

2. PROGRESSIVE

4. 🔧 Distributed
🔧 Independent of hardware,
software and ability
🔧 Based on open, documented and
agreed protocols and
technologies
https://www.flickr.com/photos/soundwave3387/25046540553/

5. 🔧 Reliability
🔧 Trustworthiness
🔧 A home base to explore from

6. WEB

7. 🔧 Non-intrusive or aggressive
🔧 Built for human interaction and as
a read+write medium
🔧 Open for professionals and
enthusiasts alike
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10462056@N06/18463551639/

8. The link is what gives the web its
power. It's an energy field created by
all living things. It surrounds us and
penetrates us. It binds the web
together.

9. The web will be with you, always.

10. A flaw more and more common
among web developers. Too sure of
themselves they are. Even the older,
more experienced ones.

11. And I am TFM, human-
cyborg relations. And this
is my counterpart RTFM.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/elentir/4434697038

12. Do, or do not. There is no try.

13. Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

14. Several developers have broken off
from the main group. Come with
me!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126563046@N06/25708945400

15. JavaScript

16. <a href="#">
Alderaan
</a>

17. <a href="javascript:void(0)">
Alderaan
</a>

18. 🔧 JavaScript is not fault tolerant
🔧 A lot can go wrong on the way
🔧 We might never be aware that
there is an issue…

19. You came in that?
You’re braver than I
thought.

20. Uh, everything's
under control.
Situation normal…

21. Ideally, a JavaScript developer took
many months to construct a single
script that he or she would keep and
use for a lifetime. Once you build it,
the script will become your constant
companion, your tool, and a ready
means of defensive development.

22. And I am TFM, human-
cyborg relations. And this
is my counterpart RTFM.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/elentir/4434697038

23. Stackoverflow copy and paste: You
will never find a more wretched hive
of scum and villainy. We must be
cautious.

24. Hokey religions and
ancient weapons are no
match for a good blaster at
your side, kid.

25. That's no moon. It's the average
web site clocking in at 2.2 MB.

26. The market forces cloud everything.
Impossible to see the future is.

27. 🌧 Mobile was a throwback to the
web of old
🌧 Small screens, bad connectivity,
unreliable browser support
🌧 Constantly changing conditions
🌧 Hardwired browser and hardware
with upgrades

28. APPS

29. I felt a great disturbance in the web,
as if millions of links suddenly cried
out in terror and were suddenly
silenced. I fear something terrible
has happened.

30. We seem to be made to
suffer. It's our lot in life.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/elentir/4434697038

31. We're doomed.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/elentir/4434697038

32. Looks like I'm going nowhere... I'm
gonna finish cleaning those 'droids.

33. Don't be too proud of this
technological terror you've
constructed. The ability to control
distribution and update cycles is
insignificant next to the power of the
web.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126563046@N06/25708945400

34. The web will be with you, always.

35. WEB
APPS

36. This is some rescue!
You came in here, but
didn't you have a plan
for getting out?

37. Uh, we had a slight weapons
malfunction, but uh...
everything's perfectly all
right now. We're fine. We're
all fine here now, thank you.
How are you?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/3579878853

38. I sense something; a presence I've
not felt since...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126563046@N06/25708945400

39. The App honeymoon
period is over!
http://www.recode.net/2016/6/8/11883518/app-boom-over-snapchat-uber
http://qz.com/253618/most-smartphone-users-download-zero-apps-per-month/

40. The more you tighten
your grip, the more
initial users will slip
through your fingers.

41. The more you tighten
your grip, the more
initial users will slip
through your fingers.

42. The more you tighten
your grip, the more
users will slip through
your fingers.

43. The more you tighten
your grip, the more
users will slip through
your fingers.

44. The web will be with you, always.

45. Han Solo: This is *not* gonna
work.
Luke Skywalker: Why didn't you
say so before?
Han Solo: I *did* say so before.

46. https://remysharp.com/2016/05/28/state-of-the-gap

50. https://remysharp.com/2016/05/28/state-of-the-gap

51. Use the comlink? Oh my!
I forgot, I turned it off.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/elentir/4434697038

52. Your father's Service Worker. This is
the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as
clumsy or random as AppCache; an
elegant weapon for a more civilised
age.

53. PROGRESSIVE
WEB
APPS

54. 🔧 Working offline using Service
Worker
🔧 Can hibernate and notify on
change
🔧 Possible progressive enhancement
of a working, standard web site
🔧 More functionality with
subsequent visits
🔧 The link is the distribution model

55. 🔧 All the benefits of native apps -
none of the sluggish distribution
issues
🔧 Natural evolution of web content
into the mobile form factor
🔧 A big opportunity to crack the
closed distribution model

57. STAY ON TARGET

58. Of innovation and impatience
Chris Heilmann @codepo8, Future Decoded, London, Nov 2015
CHRIS HEILMANN
@CODEPO8
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