'No drawback to working in HTML5'

Financial Times: 'There is no drawback to working in HTML5' | Media | theguardian.com: " . . . When the FT first switched from native to HTML5 on iOS in 2011, it was seen in some quarters as a snub to Apple. Although that was partly true – the FT and Apple disagreed over control of subscriber data – a more important reason was the desire to make porting and maintaining the app across multiple platforms and devices easier in the longer term. Two years on, Grimshaw says the strategy is proving a success. "I challenge anyone to tell the difference between our HTML5 app and a native app. There is no drawback to working in HTML5, and there are lots of advantages," he says. "Anybody that's chosen to develop native apps in parallel [for different platforms] is now really struggling with the overhead of maintaining and developing them. Most of the savvy developers have switched to HTML5, even if they're still delivering those apps in a native wrapper. I don't think it will be long before a lot of those apps start emerging as pure HTML5 apps in browsers.". . . ." (read more at link above)

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