This document discusses the development of web applications and introduces web development frameworks. It covers the history of computer applications and languages, challenges of multi-platform mobile app development, and the evolution of web technologies enabled by HTML5. It then analyzes the current state of web development frameworks, including debugging tools, IDEs, JavaScript libraries and frameworks, UI frameworks, data/logic frameworks, and cross-platform frameworks.
33. YQL
• What is YQL?
• The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language
that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services.
With YQL, apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a
smaller network footprint.