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Sounds obvious now, but I remember advising quite a few people "not build their house on other people's land" several years ago. It was true then, is true now, and will always be t…

I agree it's all about trade-off. Cleaner, faster, cheaper development vs risk of alienating some percentage of users with older mobile browsers. I was trying to get a feel for wha…

Very interesting. Thanks

Excellent comment, thanks. We would require location and touch functionality. The core use case is really quite simple: users provide both text and numerical feedback based on thei…

Well, we'd basically want to target them all! Given that people change their phones more often than their PCs, one would expect the installed mobile browser base to 'fresher' than …

Yes, but that implies the app is an end to itself. What if you just wanted to present an existing web service to mobile users in an "app-like" UI?

Sure, cycle intensive use cases will probably use native code for a long time to come. The idea of adding native wrappers around a pure HTML/JS implementation sounds very interesti…

Yes, but it implies the user anticipating the use case... Would you download an app which talks you through fixing a car engine before you actually needed it, for example?

Thanks - that is exactly what I'm talking about. But don't you have a problem with older mobile browsers not being able to render the site correctly?

Good point. I should have mentioned monetization is not an issue. In other words, if what we aim to build were in an app store it would be free anyway. Basically I'm asking whether…

Assuming a mobile service needs to be launched in 6 months time, does it make sense to go straight to HTML5? Will the market be ready? The recent release of the first version of JQ…

Yes, but Google's valuation is confirmed by trading volumes. In the early days of computerized trading it was quite common for even quite liquid stocks to be suspended limit up/dow…

Hi Joel, ex stock analyst here. What you say re minority trades is correct in so far as that is the way market valuations are calculated. However, what David says is also correct: …

See http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm for an amusing counterpoint to PG's original post

Thank you

Yes, some might find it offensive.

Very diplomatically put..

That's useful feedback, thanks

"apple is refusing to support flash in favor of html5" I would argue Apple is not allowing Flash because it has the speed and graphics ability to compete with native apps (which Ap…