Folks, a few times over the last year I've raised the topic of writing browser based applications that can reach the most mobile devices with the least coding effort. Sadly we learned (from the replies) that there is no easy road. It looks like you have to "go native" in Object C or Java, or use HTML5 and accept reduced functionality. All of these options are a rather frightening for us because we only have C++ and C# skills in the group and we'll have to hire specialists or undergo intense training.
A colleague using the latest Borland C++ kits says it has a product called Prism which claims to target different platforms with a common code base. I said that sounds like black magic, but my colleague is so busy that he hasn't had time yet to evaluate Prism. A quick search hints that Prism is actually Oxygene <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_Prism>, which would take us down a completely different road. So this leaves us with the optional of HTML5 ... but we're wondering just what it can and can't do. Is it possible to write a "real application" in HTML5, with grids, splitters, trees, drag-and-drop, animated charts, etc. I find it hard to believe that HTML5 could reproduce this functionality in our Silverlight 5 app. Can anyone here explain just what HTML5 is capable or incapable of doing? Cheers, Greg K
