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Even with multi-browser support, it isn't that bad. But we're not talking about websites here, are we? We're talking about using HTML/CSS/JS to build native app

Even with multi-browser support, it isn't that bad. But we're not talking about websites here, are we? We're talking about using HTML/CSS/JS to build native apps for mobile devices - which are by and large webkit-based. This greatly simplifies everything.

blub 14y ago
Oh really? Let's take my webkit-based mobile browser then and look at an instagram picture. Hm, it's cut in half and I can't scroll. Mobile web apps are actually iOS webapps that most of the time work on Android. Stop pretending you actually care about standards and cross-platform, you're only interested in doing less work, learning fewer things and holding users firmly by the balls in the cloud.
- macspoofing 14y ago
  I got maybe half your point though I'm not quite sure what your objection is. "Holding users firmly by the balls in the cloud"? If your service already resides in the cloud, the technology you implement your client software in, hardly matters, no? Facebook app, whether is HTML5 or native, is largely unusable without a persistent internet connection. Yes, I am interested in doing less work. I do care about standards, thanks. I certainly wouldn't stand in the way of anyone wanting to learn whatever they want. If you want to build an app to learn Objective-C, all the power to you.
- yareally 14y ago
  My issue with HTML apps (like your issue) is many developers think it's perfectly okay to use that iOS interface on Android because Android does not force you to change it. The Android ecosystem is so polluted with apps like this that it almost makes me long for Google to put their foot down and start forcing UI compliance like Apple does. It's bad enough Android users have to deal with legacy apps on their own OS that still use pre Android 3.0/4.0 UI conventions (or worse, poorly slap them on top of their old interface without consideration). The only apps that should be allowed to get away with rolling their own UI are games.
  - OGRammer 14y ago
    you are essentially saying that google should remove many of its own apps from the market? Even they follow the ios conventions a lot of times. google+ has buttons on the bottom of the screen just like iphone apps. should that be removed?

blub 14y ago

Oh really? Let's take my webkit-based mobile browser then and look at an instagram picture. Hm, it's cut in half and I can't scroll. Mobile web apps are actually iOS webapps that most of the time work on Android. Stop pretending you actually care about standards and cross-platform, you're only interested in doing less work, learning fewer things and holding users firmly by the balls in the cloud.

macspoofing 14y ago
I got maybe half your point though I'm not quite sure what your objection is. "Holding users firmly by the balls in the cloud"? If your service already resides in the cloud, the technology you implement your client software in, hardly matters, no? Facebook app, whether is HTML5 or native, is largely unusable without a persistent internet connection. Yes, I am interested in doing less work. I do care about standards, thanks. I certainly wouldn't stand in the way of anyone wanting to learn whatever they want. If you want to build an app to learn Objective-C, all the power to you.
yareally 14y ago
My issue with HTML apps (like your issue) is many developers think it's perfectly okay to use that iOS interface on Android because Android does not force you to change it. The Android ecosystem is so polluted with apps like this that it almost makes me long for Google to put their foot down and start forcing UI compliance like Apple does. It's bad enough Android users have to deal with legacy apps on their own OS that still use pre Android 3.0/4.0 UI conventions (or worse, poorly slap them on top of their old interface without consideration). The only apps that should be allowed to get away with rolling their own UI are games.
- OGRammer 14y ago
  you are essentially saying that google should remove many of its own apps from the market? Even they follow the ios conventions a lot of times. google+ has buttons on the bottom of the screen just like iphone apps. should that be removed?