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Re:Show HN: From Zero to the Appstore - My ebook on HTML5 mo... by olsn on Monday April 22, 2013 @09:44AM (#5589188)
You are probably right! Good point, I should probably add that to the page.

There are some CocoonJS games in the store, you can see some here: http://ludei.com/games CocoonJS will give your HTML5 game native performane.

Re:Show HN: From Zero to the Appstore - My ebook on HTML5 mo... by dubcanada on Monday April 22, 2013 @09:59AM (#5589240)
I think you need to rethink your terms.

Native performance is wrong, javascript (unless it's like asm.js or something) will never be "native performance".

All CocoonJS is, is just a OpenGL layer with html/css/javascript support. And while it is faster then just flat out using JSC. It is not faster then c/objective c + opengl.

There have also been several reports of CocoonJS actually being slower then UIWebView. A simple google search for "cocoonjs performance" returned several issues.

Re:Show HN: From Zero to the Appstore - My ebook on HTML5 mo... by olsn on Monday April 22, 2013 @10:18AM (#5589316)
That is not entirely correct - UIWebView canvas rendering is far behind OpenGL layers like CocoonJS, Ejecta or directCanvas(AppMobi) in terms of performance - the difference however is, that those tools are able to ONLY render canvas-contents, so you are not really able to render any HTML5 forms, input ect... but that's not what canvas-games are about.
Re:Show HN: From Zero to the Appstore - My ebook on HTML5 mo... by dubcanada on Monday April 22, 2013 @10:45AM (#5589431)
It still uses Javascript. Native OpenGL+ObjC/C (done correct) will always be faster. All it really is, is better performance then UIWebView as it doesn't have all the webcore/kit stuff.

ALl I'm getting at is saying "native performance" is not correct. In a world where even 2-3 FPS can mean a usable game or a not usable game. I think the terminology matters a lot.

But you should still recommend people to using those solutions, just don't pass them off as something they are not.

Re:Show HN: From Zero to the Appstore - My ebook on HTML5 mo... by olsn on Monday April 22, 2013 @12:50PM (#5590315)
Okay, I agree with that - I'll change that :)