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Having done some PhoneGap dev lately, it is possible to make a great app using HTML5, but to make it perform well and have the right look and feel requires a to
by programminggeek 14y ago
Having done some PhoneGap dev lately, it is possible to make a great app using HTML5, but to make it perform well and have the right look and feel requires a ton of work, and the tooling around it still leaves something to be desired, especially on the UI side.
Libraries like Kendo UI or Sencha Mobile help a lot, but if I were Facebook, I'd spend the dev time to do it right and make it awesome.
Whether that means optimizing the crap out of their HTML 5 or going native is a judgement call.
- jcromartie 14y agoI've had a hard time finding a really convincing "great app" that is largely HTML5. Can you mention what it was?
- inerte 14y agoLinkedin's app is mostly web tech. While I personally have used it a few times, I think most people enjoy it.
- jcromartie 14y agoLinkedIn's app on the iPhone has a lot of native views. There are some telltale signs that indiciate native components make up everything but the "leaf nodes" of the app's UX.
- mehrzad 14y agoHe/she meant the iPad app.
- marknutter 14y agoLinkedin's mobile app is a hybrid, but their iPad app is 100% HTML5 and runs beautifully. I'm also pretty sure that Google's Gmail iPhone app is 100% html5 as well as I've seen it re-render the entire interface occasionally as if it were an app in a UIWebView.