When it comes to user experience and functionality, the web applications have always been a little ahead of the mobile web. The benefits of mobile friendly websites are plenty; right from greater reach and being accessible from multiple devices to linking from search, email and social media. However, all the benefits of mobile friendly websites have been damaged by native apps, as they offer better user experience and functionality.

However, because of the new technologies emerging including HTML 5, the developers and programmers can deliver the experience similar like in that of native applications in the web browser, and thus the name web app. This is encouraging businesses to get a web app in addition to the native app. While native apps can work on only one platform; either Android or Apple, the web app has to work on all the devices, platforms, browsers and operating systems. So, the web experience is not just limited to websites anymore; now businesses can get the web apps built to perform various tasks. Some of the best examples of the interactive mobile web apps are Gmail, Quartz and PayPal, to name a few.

Mobile web apps have been enabled by two things:

1. HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript: HTML5 is the latest version of the most popular and basic programming language. On the other side CSS 3 is the latest version of the cascading style sheet which is responsible for the format of the website).  When these two combines with the interactivity of JavaScript, miracles happen! Developers make the use of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to provide the mobile friendly and touch optimized interface and navigation as well as interactive user experience which only the native app developers used to offer.

2. Browsers APIs: The introduction of the browser APIs let the websites interact with GPS, camera, accelerometer, microphone, thermometer and ambience light detector, to name a few. These things will help developers to bring in the functionalities of native apps into the mobile websites; the features like working offline, access the device location and push notifications. The W3C create these standards and then the web browsers companies implement them.

Some of the best web app innovations include:

• Location: The website can track the current location of the user. Safari was the first browser to include this feature. Even, IE has got the Geolocation feature.
• Camera: It gets you the access to use the camera on various browsers for video streaming.
• Audio: This feature is widely adopted, as it lets developers to do various things using sound. This is extremely important in games.
• Working offline: As the name suggests, it lets the offline web applications work in the current versions of the browsers which means that the web applications can work even if there is no internet connection.
• Push notifications: This enables to send the notification to the device of the web app user even when the user is not using the web app.
• Full screen: It lets browser to take over the full screen.

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