Re:Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
by joeblau on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @08:39AM
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> Something based on Cordova (eg PhoneGap, Ionic) with Crosswalk can get you to about 90% of the performance of a native app
Companies like Famo.us have proven this is incorrect mathematically over 2 years ago. That is precisely why Famo.us built its own rendering engine that subverts the DOM and renderings content similar to a gaming engine (Unreal Engine). The DOM can't render as many surfaces as a native app in one view smoothly.
You can still make a very performant cross platform DOM based application (http://hn.premii.com is an excellent example), but in order to get that performance you need to limit your interface to very basic UI elements.
Companies like Famo.us have proven this is incorrect mathematically over 2 years ago. That is precisely why Famo.us built its own rendering engine that subverts the DOM and renderings content similar to a gaming engine (Unreal Engine). The DOM can't render as many surfaces as a native app in one view smoothly.
You can still make a very performant cross platform DOM based application (http://hn.premii.com is an excellent example), but in order to get that performance you need to limit your interface to very basic UI elements.