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Re:The Internet Economy by LoSboccacc on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @05:25PM (#11670791)
I don't think cpu were ready back then. Sure you had that blackberry thing using the equivalent of the modern embedded webview but you couldn't do much heavy lifting with it.

Also many standard didn't exist. Maybe today, with webgl and asm.js and web workers It's viable, but in the days native access was the only way to provide a smooth experience. See: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest...

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Re:The Internet Economy by amelius on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @06:21PM (#11671168)
Good points, but I think that Facebook's problems might have been more about integration than about performance.
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Re:The Internet Economy by LoSboccacc on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:42AM (#11672859)
Found the technical writeup http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-coremob/2012Sep/0...

Two main issues back then were scrolling perrformance and memory constraints.

We're working at image heavy microsites at lookcast and I can confirm memory issues and composition performances are still constraining what we can do on devices.

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