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wvenable on Feb 9, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: HTML5 Is An Oncoming Train, Native App Development...

Cocoa and Android are the native APIs of the platform. HTML5 is an abstraction on top of Cocoa and Android; it should be obvious that it's not at the same level. HTML is the least common denominator across all platforms and is a sandbox on top of that. The distinction is a lot stronger than you make it out to be.

Tichy on Feb 10, 2011 [–]

Android is not the native API, at least the Java API is not. What magic capabilities are there on these devices that are forever beyond the reach of JavaScript? Does Cocoa expose all possibilities of the phone to the developer (I don't think so...)?

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