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SunboX on Sept 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go native, HTML5 is going to lag for a while

That´s really wrong! Facebook still uses a lot of HTML5 in their new App! But they fixed a lot of bugs, mainly removed a lot of concurrent UIWebViews. For more information, take a look at:

http://www.vasantkumar.ca/2012/08/native-vs-html5-why-facebo...

But simply saying "They removed HTML5 and all works a lot better" is very wrong.

tjogin on Sept 10, 2012 [–]

Nobody's said that though. Facebook has, in fact, replaced some web views with native code, and that has sped up the app tremendously.

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