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On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, a few times over the last year I've raised the topic of writing > browser based applications that can reach the most mobile devices with the > least coding effort. Sadly we learned (from the replies) that there is no > easy road. It looks like you have to "go native" in Object C or Java, or > use HTML5 and accept reduced functionality. All of these options are a > rather frightening for us because we only have C++ and C# skills in the > group and we'll have to hire specialists or undergo intense training. > > A colleague using the latest Borland C++ kits says it has a product called > Prism which claims to target different platforms with a common code base. I > said that sounds like black magic, but my colleague is so busy that he > hasn't had time yet to evaluate Prism. A quick search hints that Prism is > actually Oxygene <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_Prism>, which would > take us down a completely different road. > > So this leaves us with the optional of HTML5 ... but we're wondering just > what it can and can't do. Is it possible to write a "real application" in > HTML5, with grids, splitters, trees, drag-and-drop, animated charts, etc. I > find it hard to believe that HTML5 could reproduce this functionality in > our Silverlight 5 app. Can anyone here explain just what HTML5 is capable > or incapable of doing? > > Cheers, > Greg K >
