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Somehow we ended up with very different experiences. I played with Sencha Mobile Kitchen Sink demo on the iPhone 4 and it was quite impressive. http://www.sench

by DenisM 15y ago

Somehow we ended up with very different experiences. I played with Sencha Mobile Kitchen Sink demo on the iPhone 4 and it was quite impressive. http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/demos/ http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/demos/ Yes, it lags ever so slightly, but faster CPU in iPhone 5 should take care of that. My only other complain is that they messed up calculating tap areas for tabbar/toolbar items - Sencha has tap area equal to the visual size of the button, whereas UIKit assigns entire section of the toolbar (44 pixels tall in portrait), which makes a lot of difference in tap detection. But I don't see why they can't fix it, and then it would be pretty good... To be clear, I am still staying away from UIWebView in favor of UIKit, but I am getting increasingly interested in this.

nupark2 15y ago
Yes, it lags ever so slightly, but faster CPU in iPhone 5 should take care of that. This is always the reply of web developers -- even on the desktop! "Yes, it's slow now, but it'll be faster with new hardware!". Meanwhile, the native applications use that additional processor power to do more stuff, and the webapps fall further behind again.
- DenisM 15y ago
  So? Desktop HTML/JS was too slow for a while, all the way until the point when it became fast enough to handle maps, email, finance etc. Remember MapPoint? It used o be a desktop map application. No one uses it anymore.
DenisM 15y ago
I have to wonder who is the downvoting person, who beleives the above post does not contribute to the discussion? Would you rather this not be posted at all? Because if you keep with the downvotes that's what's going to happen - no links to Sencha demo, no keen observations about tap areas, no personal opinion from experienced i-thing developer. I also wonder where are the people who would appreciate this sort of contribution. They gotta be somewhere...

by DenisM 15y ago

nupark2 15y ago

Yes, it lags ever so slightly, but faster CPU in iPhone 5 should take care of that. This is always the reply of web developers -- even on the desktop! "Yes, it's slow now, but it'll be faster with new hardware!". Meanwhile, the native applications use that additional processor power to do more stuff, and the webapps fall further behind again.

DenisM 15y ago
So? Desktop HTML/JS was too slow for a while, all the way until the point when it became fast enough to handle maps, email, finance etc. Remember MapPoint? It used o be a desktop map application. No one uses it anymore.

DenisM 15y ago

I have to wonder who is the downvoting person, who beleives the above post does not contribute to the discussion? Would you rather this not be posted at all? Because if you keep with the downvotes that's what's going to happen - no links to Sencha demo, no keen observations about tap areas, no personal opinion from experienced i-thing developer. I also wonder where are the people who would appreciate this sort of contribution. They gotta be somewhere...