Exactly what I was looking for. I tried using PhoneGap but installing all this SDKs is a pain. PS: I can't even subscribe to your newsletter, everything seems broken: http://i.imgur.com/Ss42bJE.png
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#42I would love to know how they are able to pull this off. I tried the ipad as well and it's smooth! Very little lag.
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#45Firefox OS, we need you to stop the "native" crazyness.
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What if there was a standard created for the markup, so that the parser would know what the links were supposed to do and how the content shoud be presented, because there would be structured data everywhere specific to the parser?
I immediately thought about that after posting, but in reality markup is a clunky and expensive way to dictate this and it would create a lot of waste for something that would be used infrequently. An interesting idea that comes to mind is the concept of a Mobile Stylesheet / .mss file that would define elements by ID / class and dictate what those elements would represent in a mobile UI. Then you wouldn't have a bun…
Honestly, I don't know if I care as much for a web-view based product, as Phonegap/Cordova have already been serving that purpose (at least for me), but what you've mentioned, if implemented, would definitely be something I'd use.
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#50This is certainly interesting, but it duplicated my own nav on my webpage. Don't know how it could be smart enough to detect that even though I have a very standard setup. In any case, I suppose it would be good for a quick and dirty start to your app and you could flesh the rest out later? I wonder who will actually end up using this for real.
nav{ display: none; }