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by jaxytee 4357 days ago
For the wild west of Android html5 hybrid development, fragmentation is a huge problem. Different manufacturers roll different implementations that behave differently. Javascript event propagation varied and broke my app on my last HTML5 project. Luckily, the chrome view will be the default webview from KitKat onwards, but it will take at least two years for 4.4+ to become ubiquitous.
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adl 4357 days ago
This! I feel your pain. I'm on the same boat, trying to support mobile HTML5 on Android.

To be fair, iOS has it's own issues with HTML5 development.

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jaxytee 4357 days ago
I think iOS' HTML5 issues (webview throttling) are self induced though. Apple has a vested interest in developers learning, and being locked into their proprietary ecosystem.

A bunch of devs building slick HTML5 apps would go against this.

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chrisdevereux 4357 days ago
It was pretty stupid of them to use the new llvm-based javascript JIT for webviews in iOS 8, then...
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