[hamidpalo]

Speed is only one of the tradeoffs. You also lose access to the native interactions, controls, transitions etc.., which makes a lot of the mobile web apps be very alien to the users since they don't really quite fit with the rest of the apps.

I am curious, can anyone point to an well-done mobile web app? The best way to shut up all of us yelling "js is worthless for mobile development" is to point to such apps and explain how they were made.

[RyLuke]

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5953345 for a discussion of a well-done performant mobile web app.

[hamidpalo]

Thanks!

[williamcotton]

Check out http://forecast.io

[camus]

Especially with Ios redesign , this is going to hurt , quite a lot, for some devs who tried to fake native feel. It's just difficult to reproduce in HTML5 CSS3.