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That would have made the performance far worse in particular on low end devices. And there were no sufficient, complete and useful HTML5 standards that could al
by Natanael_L 10y ago
That would have made the performance far worse in particular on low end devices. And there were no sufficient, complete and useful HTML5 standards that could allows web apps to compete with local software.
Extending the web standards would simply have been too much work and caused too much trouble.
- amelius 10y ago> That would have made the performance far worse in particular on low end devices. Well, the most important thing people do, even on low-end devices, is browse the web.
- c1sc0 10y agoNo, that would be IM/chat these days
- amelius 10y agoOk. But does that require more performance than webbrowsing?
- LoSboccacc 10y agoSee: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest-mistake-with-mobile-was-betting-too-much-on-html5/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest...
- 0xsnowcrash 10y agoArguably not. But even with this use case, the Web has got significantly more complex. Local Storage, local databases, GPS access, gesture detection to name a few. That all hits Web performance hard especially on earlier mobile devices.