I understand that. But we also have apps like Adium displaying their chat messages using HTML with no issues, just because they want to easily customize the the

I understand that. But we also have apps like Adium displaying their chat messages using HTML with no issues, just because they want to easily customize the themes. Point is, native or not native, this should not matter for a well optimized code. We are not talking about a AAA game here, it's just a chat app. It should not be burning cycles when inactive.