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Re:No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app by huskyr on Monday February 04, 2013 @04:53PM (#5167408)
In theory you're right. Unfortunately in practice most webapps better stay in the browser on iOS. The Javascript engine on full-screen webapps is slower than the one in Safari (that's why the previous Facebook app was slow as hell).

Aside from that, offline app cache is a PITA to implement.

Things have got better though. Web audio works on iOS 6, and Chrome on Android finally delivers a proper browser. I hope in a few years time we'll actually be able to serve games in WebGL to the browsers on both platforms.

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Re:No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app by erichocean on Monday February 04, 2013 @09:48PM (#5168732)
The Javascript engine on full-screen webapps is slower than the one in Safari (that's why the previous Facebook app was slow as hell).

Not true[0]. Home-screen web apps use the Nitro engine as of iOS 5. It's only embedded web views (i.e. the Facebook app, Google Chrome on iOS) that don't. FWIW Chrome is my favorite browser on iOS, despite the speed loss.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/06/ios-5-brings-nitro-spee...

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