>>I think in the not too distant future though this will become the dominant development model though. Developers and companies don't have the >resources to build for all these different device platforms and there's a lot of clamoring going on to build standard UIs that work across platforms. At the >very least with HTML5 you may be able to build some fairly compelling touch enabled apps that can be accessed from device small format browsers and >that works today!
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>I agree. In fact I believe programming in general is going to change. Most programmers I know don't like working with multi-languages. They
>generally want one language to cover all their needs (including all the devices).
Given that criteria, HTML5 is actually the worse solution.
To put out an HTML5 app, you need to know HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL.
I know when I was writing software for the desktop, we wrote for Windows. Not Windows and Linux and Mac. Just Windows.
Now I write for Android.
$199 Android tablet in the form of a Kindle Fire?
Killer Samsung, Motorolla, ect. phones in everyone's pocket.
Just pick Android, seems obvious to me.
Or consider the following solution.
I wrote an app called DoodleMe. On your Android phone, you can draw a little doodle, hit Send, and email it, txt it, facebook it, tweet it, whatever apps are on your phone that allow sharing are options within my app.
Now if you send it to another Android user, and they have my app, opening the doodle will launch my app and load the specified content.
But what if you don't have an Android?
Well, see for yourself:
http://doodle.monadpad.com/d.php?name=4f3a0c45b01e5That's HTML5. It draws on a < canvas > element using JavaScript generated from PHP code based on MySQL data.
I'm pretty surprised that it even renders on Black Berry's that aren't exactly the latest model.
>That said, what are your thoughts about "Dart" and the other frameworks that provide javascript solutions?
