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I completely agree. So much clever engineering is being devoted right now to making HTML do things it was never intended to do. I'm not happy about the shift to

I completely agree. So much clever engineering is being devoted right now to making HTML do things it was never intended to do. I'm not happy about the shift to proprietary native platforms but selfishly I'm so much happier coding close to the metal in iOS with a well-designed UI toolkit.

mhd 15y ago
Close to the metal? Well, in your case that might be true, but I see more and more applications on mobile devices that are pretty small wrappers around Webkit views, as this makes portability easier and harnesses the existing skills of the developers.