I agree. We will be migrating to html 5 soon but even where we are today, the pages work on the iPhone family (including iPod touch, iPad) as well as on android. So, while I can imagine preparing a Java wrapper for android and perhaps even an objective-c wrapper for apple to wrap the web site (not as if I know just what that would take), I really do not want to write separate apps for each possible device. Writing a web application with a UI that is good for a phone and also works well for a desktop/laptop/pad computer should mean we can single-source an app for all such platforms (knock on wood), even if specifying different css for different devices.
I can imagine writing phone-OS-specific apps for something that can be run without being on the web, but for many SaaS or old-fashioned data processing apps, html 5 pages seems like a good idea to me. --dawn On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Kevin King <[email protected]> wrote: > Symeon said "For mobile dev i think the way forward for many is html5 and > css3". I wholeheartedly agree. > > While the bragging rights may be different for creating a webapp vs. a > "true" mobile app in Java, C, etc., the features, portability, and > maintainability available today with frameworks like jQuery Mobile are just > astounding. And the price ain't bad either. Then again, being able to > create a respectable mobile webapp with nothing more than a simple editor > is > all so... Multivalue. > > -Kevin > http://www.PrecisOnline.com > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
