Sencha Touch and HTML5 - as fast as native apps?

By alvin ~ Posted Thu, 10/03/2013 - 09:17

I ran across this story about Sencha Touch speed and an app named Fastbook. In short, the video at that link shows how a Sencha Touch mobile app is faster than Facebook’s native iOS and Android apps(!). Here’s a little text from the story:

"When Mark Zuckerberg said HTML5 wasn’t ready, we took a little offense to the comment ... We thought to ourselves: HTML5 can’t really be the reason that Facebook’s mobile application was slow ... We had our suspicions about why Facebook’s mobile application team had problems, because it matched a common pattern."

Check out that link in the first paragraph for more information and the short video.

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