The State of Web Development 2010. Welcome to this detailed report from our second “State of Web Development” survey of professional web designers and developers.
It includes details and analysis of all the responses to over 50 questions covering technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices that today’s web professionals employ. You can download the complete (anonymized) set of responses in CSV format, our PDF infographic overview see just the results to all the questions or read on to dive into our detailed analysis. “The State of Web Development” survey is brought to you by Web Directions conferences, and Scroll Magazine, and conducted by John Allsopp. App Store not invited to web's date with destiny. High performance access to file storage Open...and Shut Just as the web seemed to have won - with consumers living their lives online through Facebook and Google and enterprises embracing cloud computing - along comes the mobile app to spoil the party.
And while mobile apps aren't the only force prompting a reconsideration of the web, as noted in The Economist, no single factor may be more potent. After discovering the freedom the web offered us for years, why this return to the isolation of closed apps? Financial Times journalist Richard Waters suggests here (warning: PDF) that the apps' convenience is the reason we're so eager to cede control to app (and app store) vendors: