[bsaul]

On a more technical aspect: does anyone knows whether the HTML5 apis tizen offer will be fast enough to cover all the needs for "nativ" apps ? I was building a HTML5 phonegap app very recently on a samsung galaxy Tab 2 and couldn't help notice how sluggish the overall feeling was, even for extremely basic UI animations (had to switch to 3D CSS transformations to make sure 3D hardware was used). If I understood correctly, Tizen will use HTML5 for pretty much anything. So i'm a bit scared of the performances..

[MatthewPhillips]

APIs are neither fast nor slow. I guess your asking if their WebKit port is going to be fast? Probably not, WebKit on ARM is still not that fast. I don't know what JS engine they'll use, likely JavaScriptCore but that's not very fast on ARM either.

[bsaul]

i did ask for apis, because i thought that laybe, as javascript is at the core of their UI, they would hardwire stuff directly to native code to speed things up. that's just wild guess, because it seems so suicidal to me to have a whole OS GUI written in html5/js right now.. especially when you know that Samsung is selling so many cheap smartphones.

[kyrra]

Do you mean "canvas" instead of HTML5 for your phonegap app?

[bsaul]

nope. using 3d css transforms sometimes speed css transitions up by making sure 3d graphic card is used. that's a secret tip i learned on ios and it works on android as well.