Pixate is an ‘over-unity’* Kickstarter project which promises to allow developers to build native iOS apps with CSS. Its aim is to address the problems of working with what many see as a difficult and cumbersome platform and language, or at the very least one that’s different from the more familiar and accessible web.

I found this project intriguing, beyond the obviously beneficial nature of using a powerful, well-known, flexible and open language such as CSS. It seems like sweet justice to those “web is dead” doomsayers, to see a well-proven web-technology being layered over an inferior technology forced upon us by a commercial dictatorship rather than adopted by its functional or technical merits.

As the project mentions they have an Android version in the pipeline, and so considering Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko / Gaia project which will bring us an entire mobile platform delivered through the web technology stack. So – if Apple doesn’t autocratically prevent this like it has banned (Flash) or allegedly stifled (Opera) previous technologies which run counter to their strategy – it could look like a very webby future for mobile development.

* $61,000 of $25,000 goal, I just coined this term!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixate/beautiful-native-mobile-apps