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The "native" facebook app is just an html5 webapp believe it or not.
by djb_hackernews 15y ago
The "native" facebook app is just an html5 webapp believe it or not.
- marknutter 15y agoIs this true? Do you have a source?
- furyofantares 15y agoIt is not true. Facebook uses this: http://three20.info/ http://three20.info/
- marknutter 15y agoI didn't think so. Thanks for clearing that up.
- sukuriant 15y agoBe that as it may, the experience of using an app is different from using a website. For one, and remember this is for the normal user, there is less searching involved which means less keyboard time, which means faster. That, and an app seems to have more authority than a website. "This is Facebook, and I know it." sort of thing.
- jng 15y agoI don't think so. You don't get that smoothness with HTML5.
- bignoggins 15y agoI believe it has both native as well as HTML5 elements, just like the LinkedIn app.
- dannyr 15y agoI believe at least the News Feed is HTML5. I discovered it when I was at Starbucks. My session expired and the NewsFeed displayed the Starbucks login page instead.
- ryanwaggoner 15y agoI have no trouble believing it, which is a big part of why it has such terrible ratings and reviews now, as compared to when it was native. And from what I understand, Facebook has done a lot of significant engineering to try and improve the performance while keeping it mostly HTML5. Mobile web apps aren't ready.
- lazerwalker 15y agoThe FB app was heavily using webviews long before the most recent redesign. I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly it was even mostly web-based back when Joe Hewitt was still working on it, and he left Facebook in 2009.
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- checker 15y agoIt was agonizingly slow on my iPhone 3G for a while until a recent update that makes it palatable.
- barumrho 15y agoNo, some minor parts are done with webview, but most of it isn't, at least not for the iPhone. There is a huge library called Three20 that was created while the app was developed (as far as I know).