{"id":2286,"date":"2011-08-22T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T10:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2286.html"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:12:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:12:55","slug":"mobile-web-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2011\/08\/22\/mobile-web-ancestry\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile web ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Celko has a nice new article on Simple-Talk.com<\/a> about how easy it is to write SQL queries that unconsciously adopt the idioms of sequential media, i.e. magnetic tape<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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When you sit in a live theater, you cannot do a close-up, pan shot, zoom, dissolve or other effect that are common in movies today. Early silent films parked the camera in one position and mimicked a theater experience. This is a general systems principle that the new technology will first mimic the previous technology before it finds its own voice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The mobile web has two immediate genetic parents: mobile apps and the desktop web. When a mobile website can tries to follow in the footsteps of either parent too closely, it feels wrong. Encountering a mobile website that locks your vertical viewport size and forces you to use a custom scrolling algorithm is just uncanny-valley weird<\/a>; whereas a site full of great content and links that doesn’t enjoy the full depth and richness of the “main” site feels unsatisfying.<\/p>\n

Remember, though, that we haven’t been using magnetic tape as a mainstream storage medium for databases for some time now<\/em>, but the idioms are still ingrained. The “classic” web has been around for a scant 20 years, and is still evolving. Mobile apps, as introduced by the iPhone, are only 3 years old<\/p>\n

The mobile web’s parents are a teen and a toddler. Is it any wonder that it hasn’t found its own feet yet? Right now, it’s an ugly duckling inside a cocoon. Some onlookers may expect to see it emerge as a swan or a butterfly, but I’m betting on something much more interesting and strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Celko has a nice new article on Simple-Talk.com about how easy it is to write SQL queries that unconsciously adopt the idioms of sequential media, i.e. magnetic tape. When you sit in a live theater, you cannot do a close-up, pan shot, zoom, dissolve or other effect that are common in movies today. Early … <\/p>\n

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