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by vladoh 5689 days ago
This is a perfect example why web apps are still nowhere near native apps. For example (testing with a HTC Desire):

- The transitions are very slow and response times are too big.

- Pinch zooming a picture results in corrupting the design - overlapping buttons and labels and so on...

- You cannot use the Menu button

- You need a constant Internet connection to be able to work with the application

- The address bar shows all the time and takes a lot of place on the screen
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pornel 5689 days ago
HTML5 has offline cache.

WebKit has CSS has transitions, which are hardware-accelerated (at least on iPhone).

WebKit has <meta name=viewport> hack (hopefully standardized as @viewport) and touch events can be used to control zooming.

In iOS pages bookmarked on home screen are allowed to hide addressbar completely.

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phlux 5689 days ago
>You need a constant Internet connection to be able to work with the application

This would seem to be one of the biggest issues. Regardless of the function of the app, having it become really laggy/jumpy when connection loss occurs would be a non-starter for me.

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