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I'd say the problems the Facebook team ran into were related to the universal difficulties of HTML5 development. The tools are nothing compared to native app de
by chrisringrose 14y ago
I'd say the problems the Facebook team ran into were related to the universal difficulties of HTML5 development. The tools are nothing compared to native app development. In making native apps, developers can visually create the GUI, double-click an element and immediately program its response. But with HTML5, everything is done programmatically, with great pains. When you run into problems you have to debug JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and any client libraries, possibly written in yet another language. The tools just aren't there, so continuing to maintain an HTML5 app that performs quickly and nicely like "Fastbook" does is far too costly, considering how much more easily a native app can be created and maintained.