On 12/18/12 12:53 PM, Robert Nyman wrote:
> One of the problems overlooked here, though, is that Sencha did it in mobile web browsers, and part of the problem lies in, for example, iOS behavior in WebViews compared to the mobile browser.
WebViews are a big problem, and it shows developers that we should drop
this whole PhoneGap/App nonsense and go (back) to mobile web at simple
URL's.
PhoneGap is just that - a stop-gap. What's the point of wrapping your
HTML5 in PhoneGap considering 1. iOS and Android WebView hobble your
app's performance 2. the iOS and Android stores absolutely *suck* for
discover-ability.
The latter point is made almost comical by stuff like
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100372991266700326299/posts/NHZdE5YYDPw I
spent 5 minutes trying to get that crap to work. Why not just have a
card with
incrediblepizza.com on it that does all that BS for me?
Or my personal favorite is a local highway billboard that says
"Available in the App store! Go to <url> for details." The whole app
packaging, distribution, and discover-ability situation is such a mess
that they send users to the web anyway.
IMO we should be hammering native apps on this BS, and it's probably
time to start moving away from the whole PhoneGap/Appcelerator approach
too. Mobile support for HTML5 is starting to catch up to the native
API's those libraries give dev's anyway.
-L