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by JDDunn9 4881 days ago
Really wish phone makers would take HTML5 seriously. Right now their JS engines are too slow for practical use. It would be really nice to finally have a build-once, deploy everywhere system
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Me too. On the latest hardware, JS is a lot better than most people give it credit for, but it still has a long way to go. Unfortunately all the major players have incentives NOT to give us a viable, portable platform.
That's what annoys me the most.

Both Apple and Google have a disincentive to improving WebViews.

If both were JUST as apt as the platform's respective browsers, html5 apps would be SO much better.

HTML5 is a still a joke for AAA game development.

The only place I see it ever take off is for indie games or small prototypes to gain a distributor contract.

Nobody suggests AAA.
We will get there! :) With such momentum that JavaScript has now, in couple of years we will be able to use it at native speed!
Stop wishing, start contributing!

http://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefoxos/

I wish HTML5 would take HTML5 seriously. Is there even a standard yet?