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How about instead of basing which tools you use on what high profile companies are using, you analyze them based on their own merit. For every LinkedIn and Face
by marknutter 13y ago
How about instead of basing which tools you use on what high profile companies are using, you analyze them based on their own merit. For every LinkedIn and Facebook that's ditching HTML5 there's 100 no named outfits using it just fine for mobile development (my team included).
- lukifer 13y agoThere's a selection bias on the quality of hybrid apps; the good ones are so hard to distinguish that you'd never know. I've also used several mobile websites that are WAY better than the app (Redbox, for instance). Depending on the use case, the browser can sometimes be the best experience, though obviously not always. Each set of needs is a beautiful and unique snowflake. Anyone reflexively choosing Technology X solely because Company Y does(n't) is probably not qualified to decide on tech stacks.
- posabsolute 13y agoWell in the case of facebook, they did not had a great html5 app from the get go. But when you see LinkedIn push back when they had one of the best known html5 app in the appstore, that warrants questions, specially since they are farther in the process than most teams (they created an html5 app, iterated on it for couple of months, decided to revert back because of memory performances ) The lack of teams being open about their process or them being more in the shadow certainly does not helps, we need more success story with html5 being in the appstores. It still certainly considered a risk by management teams when you associate all your mobile efforts with html5.
- marknutter 13y agoYeah, without a post-mortem from LinkedIn their switch away from HTML5 is barely worth mentioning. It sounds to me like they engineered themselves into a corner somehow. I guess we'll never know.