Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5

Re:Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5 by Joeri on Monday December 17, 2012 @02:06PM (#4933759)

We've yet to see a web app that meets or exceeds the experience offered by native desktop apps.

Natively built apps are almost always "better" because they're closer to the OS and implement the native UI conventions. At the same time, web apps are almost always cheaper, because you don't have to develop for each platform from scratch (or suffer a lowest common denominator experience by using a cross-platform non-web dev framework.)

Mobile has the same dynamic. Mobile web apps can get away with being worse, as long as they are "good enough" and available on all platforms. The app store's ease-of-shipping bonus has delayed this, but the shift to mobile web apps is pretty much inevitable because of the cost of development and the ease of deployment.

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Re:Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5 by Lennie on Sunday December 30, 2012 @09:50AM (#4985805)

Why would a HTML5 app need to exceed the experience of a native app ?

It needs to meet the needs of the user, that's all.

And if that can be done with X-platform HTML5 then that might be the advantage the developer is looking for.

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