[rdrimmie]

This is a great article. My knee jerk reaction was to be a bit defensive "but native development is a lot of work too!" And it is, great applications require a lot of work regardless of platform.

But the article isn't (explicitly at least) saying that web-based mobile applications necessarily require any more work than porting an application between multiple platforms, but it is saying that web-based mobile application development isn't just "crank out an app and it runs great everywhere" which is something a lot of proponents (among whom I count myself) certainly do argue.

As the article concludes, there are a great many number of considerations when selecting a platform, and the detail here highlights the many that exist for mobile development.

I really very deeply enjoyed this article.

[fling]

thanks a lot! that was exactly what I was hoping to demystify: Yes! HTML5 can do the job, just don't underestimate the amount of work it will take you.