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Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 and went native for its mobile apps

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Re: Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 and went native for its mobile apps

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that's quite an accusation. I assume you mean they're emailing you things, and you have an account there.

They seem to continuously invent new things to mail you about, as often as possible, which you then continuously have to uncheck on the site. We can argue about definitions but in my mind LinkedIn are definitely spammers, that are now only tolerated because the site is too popular for jobs (especially if you're a contractor). They didn't use to be like this, but they now have the questionable distinction of being the…

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Re: Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 and went native for its mobile apps

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Do you have an idea for why both Facebook and Linked in, the two poster children of HTML5 apps, moved away from them? It can't be that they have a grudge against HTML or something...

Yes, actually, I know exactly why Facebook's moved away from it: the beginnings of their HTML5 mobile strategy actually pre-dated the original iPhone, and as such they were using a strategy that didn't really make sense in the post iPhone world. Namely, the app was pulling down the mobile version of their website from the server on every request , which as you might imagine meant things were generally pretty sluggish…

> using websockets and a mini web server

Whoa! That sounds super convoluted.

Re: Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 and went native for its mobile apps

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Why on earth would you disable pinch zoom on mobile web? It is the most useful feature, it allows the reader to adjust the amount and size of text displayed. I use it all the time and despise those web apps blocking it. Html is elastic by nature, and html 5 will win over native apps because it is elastic.

> Html is elastic by nature, and html 5 will win over > native apps because it is elastic. HTML won't win anything, first and foremost because it is not fighting anything. And HTML is neither elastic or inelastic. Calling HTML elastic is like calling an idea "green and wet". HTML is for marking up structure of the document (I am ignoring a couple of presentational attributes in HTML, but they should be ignored). CSS…

"HTML is for marking up structure of the document" - exactly. The trouble starts when you start trying to use it for app's GUI.
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