Re: HTML5 capabilities

[Matt]

The thing to remember about HTML5 is that it is a very fast moving target as there is a lot of new architectures relying on it, ie. the new Tizen phones/tablets (was meego, maemo etc), and chrome OS, that Samsung and Google are funnelling a LOT of money into. This being said some of the new technologies that is making the old speed problems go away is things like Internet explorer now supports WebGL like all the other browsers (for display speed) and the most interesting is asm.js, which the new builds of firefox includes, that compiles on the fly to native code to give you a considerable improvement in the sections of your code that you think needs it. With this in mind and the fact that companies cannot afford to let HTML5 be a second class citizen, it may be something you need to look at depending on when you are releasing your software and what will be available to you at that time. Matt On 01/07/13 12:23, David Connors wrote: On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk <crai...@gmail.com> wrote: I have used PhoneGap in conjunction with www.vsnomad.com and it is pretty good. But you are essentially still dealing with a HTML5 app that has been wrapped in a native code wrapper. I used it with jQuery Mobile and there were quite a few performance issues that needed to be fine tuned. You also need to be clear on what your type of app is. If you're writing a 'businessy' app with data display, query, etc it is probably fine. There are guys out there who wrote a Fastbook (http://fb.html5isready.com/) which proves the point for simple information display-oriented applications (thought I think they prove that Facebook's mobile app is slow, not that theirs is fast). If you're trying to write Bad Piggies, then HTML is a non-starter on mobile devices. David.