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Asked: 2026-05-23T12:19:54+00:00

This may be opinionated or whatever, but I think its a fair question to

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This may be opinionated or whatever, but I think its a fair question to ask.

So everyone at my job is like onboard with HTML 5 and whatever. I think its good to have this functionality possible in a web browser…

HOWEVER

For every different device wouldn’t you need to support different versions of your HTML 5 application? Is that so much better than just programming a native application? Is the only benefit in this type of usage the fact that you can create one application with essentially different CSS/JS files?

I don’t really understand why you wouldn’t need different sizing libraries for, say, a tablet vs. an Android m/h-dpi device vs. an iPhone. They are all different, shouldn’t the browsers render differently on those devices as well?

I know HTML 5 apps have features that allow it to act like a native app, but if you would need to resize your app for every device is it normally worth the tradeoff?

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  1. Editorial Team

    What is so good about Mobile HTML 5?

    It’s a buzzword. Buzzwords make marketing people happy.

    For the rest of this answer I’ll assume you mean “What is so good about HTML 5 when it comes to mobile devices?”.

    For every different device wouldn’t you need to support different versions of your HTML 5 application?

    No.

    Is that so much better than just programming a native application?

    Even if it was the case, it saves having to port the application to a different programming language and GUI toolkit for each device.

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