Chapter 8Turning a Web App to Glass
Glass is a new kind of device, as different from a smartphone as a tablet is from a desktop computer. Although the world, including the Mirror API, runs on the Web, Glass isn’t a web device. This means you’ll have a bit of work cut out for you to enhance an existing web application to be Glassware, but it’s worth doing to win more users.
Take heart! We can follow some general rules for expanding a web app to support Glass. In this chapter we’ll upgrade a simple blog to function in Glass. We’ll start with a look at the software’s design and what actions a user can take. Then we’ll break those actions into parts that we can and cannot implement in Glass. Finally, we’ll dive deep into making the necessary changes ...
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