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Sorry, this is just wrong. The time to parse CSS + HTML is negligible and isn't a reason native is better. Native apps have a better foothold currently because
by nilliams 10y ago
Sorry, this is just wrong. The time to parse CSS + HTML is negligible and isn't a reason native is better.
Native apps have a better foothold currently because mobile platforms had better support for their own native languages, than for sophisticated web runtimes like V8 at release.
- millstone 10y agoThe runtime isn't what matters, the touch-first UI toolkit and OS integration story is. The web came to mobile with lots of desktop baggage: scrolling, hover, "px", CPU-driven animations, etc. That's what makes it awkward on mobile.
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- jokoon 10y agoThe problem is "sophisticated". You can't have speed with "sophisticated" if that platform you are releasing software on is "sophisticated". At its base, the system must be simple enough. If AT LEAST html would be a strict language like xml is, maybe that'd be better. But XML is not even human readable. YAML is.