Producing an application for both desktop and mobile

Posted Mar 1, 2019 2:02 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: Producing an application for both desktop and mobile by cagrazia
Parent article: Producing an application for both desktop and mobile

It's easier to target one slow-changing runtime than an unbounded number of subtly incompatible ones.

Apple is also aware of this, which is why they ban all other competing HTML5 implementations from their mobile platform.

Producing an application for both desktop and mobile

Posted Mar 1, 2019 4:02 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

You can have competing HTML renderers but you can't have a competing JavaScript interpreter. You also can't make a JIT compiler because of Apple's restrictions.