You know the saying, when one door closes, another one opens? In this case, the door for HTML5 was just kicked open a little wider. Last week Adobe announced it would be abandoning mobile Flash, a move that the late-Steve Jobs would certainly endorse. This also signals a trend we’ve been following and advocating for a while – HTML5 is making great headway over the competition. 
And in my opinion, HTML5 is making great progress. HTML5 is getting richer and richer, and as mobile web standards evolve and the UI for mobile web apps gets better, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate between web-based HTML5 apps and native apps. On top of that, it’s less expensive to build a mobile HTML5 app instead of several native apps, and the web development model saves time for developers who don’t need to write in several languages. There is also more to come with the future of mobile web apps, including inter-app messaging, better UI animations and background script processing provided by web workers.
Further, HTML 5 video (webM or H.264) will provide a better than sufficient mobile user experience and as hardware and devices continuing to be ship with faster CPUs and high performance memory, the experience will improve even more.
Tags: Application development, HTML5, Mobile Applications, Native Applications
