[amadeus]

This app is so painfully a web app.

Here's why.

First thing I did, started dragging around when I was presented with some grey/brown screen (an intermediary between the load image and the web app actually being loaded?) so I got a nice little rubber bandy action on a grey screen. Web app.

Since there is no normal iOS UI pieces, I find myself being more critical of it because it's unfamiliar.

I tap the input for the dollar amount, I am presented with the default keyboard. Very crappy for entering dollar amounts. Web app.

Oh yeah, also the entire view slides up on focus. Web app.

When changing the number of guests, I get a weird white flash before everything animates in. Typical sign of a... Web app (a symptom of poor usage of translate3d, generally).

And then of course, there's the final piece, this app is a tech demo, not a serious application. It makes no calls to the server, has no serious scroll views, etc.

There are decent examples out there of what can be a good web app, this is not one of them.

[chris_wot]

I tap the input for the dollar amount, I am presented with the default keyboard. Very crappy for entering dollar amounts. Web app.

<input type="number">

I seriously don't get why more developers don't use it.

[brunnsbe]

If I remember correctly the support for the decimal separator is a mess between Android and iOS, I think it was so that iOS defaults to comma and Android to a dot which makes is difficult to write any cross-browser code with input-type number if it has to handle decimal numbers as well.

[chris_wot]

Surely these advanced operating system environments allow you to localise decimal separators?

[geon]

The last pic in the article says they did exactly that.

[joezydeco]

Hey, at least you got that far. I'm on a completely brown screen that brings up keyboards when you click in places, but that's it. Can't even kill it in the multifinder, the app isn't there!

[curtisa]

I'm caught btw native vs html5 so if you could list a couple of the decent web apps sites you know, I'd be interested to see good examples. Tks

[epo]

Pix or GTFO. Any internet windbag can make cheap criticisms. Show us some examples of what you regard as "a good web app".