The Facebook app has consistently received terrible ratings, not just this current slow version, but in previous ones also.  I don't know why FB doesn't put more effort into their iOS app.  Is it because they would prefer users to use FB on mobile Safari?

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I don't know much about programming but as far as I can recall my readings of tech forums , I thought that HTML 5 was the way to go. It's ought to be the web standard now.

Today morning in my flipboard, I came across this article posted on The Verge. I am not sure if it fits in to this scenario. But let me share it anyway.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3120275/ea-browser-game-strike-force-html5-multiplayer

Snippets:

"What makes the game special isn't its 3D visuals, robot combat, or audio effects -- although they are reportedly impressive -- but rather, that the game is written in HTML5, a web standard. As such, it can be played in Google's Chrome browser on phones, tablets, and computers, without the need for so much as a special plugin, and with reportedly very low latency"

"Using HTML5 allowed EA to avoid the expensive tools and long development cycles required in console gaming."

"Strike Force is written with web code, and powered by computers at an EA data center. It certainly sounds great, but it might be a while before this caliber of browser-based game is ready for prime time"

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Originally Posted by Hari5 

I don't know much about programming but as far as I can recall my readings of tech forums , I thought that HTML 5 was the way to go. It's ought to be the web standard now.

It depends on the situation.

In general, if you know what you are doing, using programming languages which are native to the platform on which you are deploying your app (i.e. Obj-C on Mac OS/iOS, C++/C# on Windows) will get you better performance.  HTML5 buys you a cross-platform application at the expense of having full control over how things are done under the hood (i.e. you're subject to how the Javascript engine on a particular platform is implemented).

For many apps, HTML5 performance is good enough.  However, when faced with performance problems, having the ability to tweak all of the little implementation details under the hood is a huge asset.  This is what Facebook has chosen to do.

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Originally Posted by Hari5 

Today morning in my flipboard, I came across this article posted on The Verge. I am not sure if it fits in to this scenario. But let me share it anyway.

 

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3120275/ea-browser-game-strike-force-html5-multiplayer

Yes, that's relevant.  I'm not quite certain, but it seems like that game is designed to work in Chrome only because it takes advantage of special capabilities in Chrome which allow it to get better performance.

*edit: From the comments, I can see it uses WebGL, which isn't optimized on all platforms yet.

Thank GOD. Sometimes I want to throw my phone at the wall.

Does this mean that Facebook mobile ads are finally coming?  Ugh...I like free products until the company goes out of business.

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Originally Posted by Hari5 

 

 

 

I don't know much about programming but as far as I can recall my readings of tech forums , I thought that HTML 5 was the way to go. It's ought to be the web standard now

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Correct: the WEB standard (or collection of standards). Outside the browser, though, there are better tools for a great many things. A web app (meaning a browser view even if not in Safari), for the foreseeable future, just cannot be as good at the best native apps. And apparently Facebook wasn't much different from a web app!

I've always wondered if that was just me. To the point of running out and using the FCC  speedtest  

"painfully slow" is right.

It's about goddamn time! They haven't updated the app in ages!