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Sencha Remakes Facebook HTML5 App Using API

blog.programmableweb.com on 12/20/2012

Excerpt: Remember when Mark Zuckerberg blamed the problematic old Facebook mobile app–dubbed “freakishly slow” by some–on “betting too much on HTML 5? ” So does backend-as-a-service (BAAS) provider Sencha, and to rebut Zuckerberg’s assertion that using HTML5 was “one of [Facebook's] biggest mistakes,” Sencha built its own mobile webapp, Fastbook, to demonstrate that HTML5 is ready for prime time. To be fair, Zuckerberg didn’t trash HTML5 outright; he explained that many Facebook users actually use the mobile web site through a smartphone browser, and it was the specific HTML5 implementation of the Facebook mobile app which failed to meet expectations and led the company to develop native iOS and Android apps.... read the full post.
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