Looks like HTML5 is the next buzz technology that every software consultancy company is desperately trying add their competence list. For some reason, it’s something that is predicted and announced to be in the next generation mobile devices. For example Tizen is said to support HTML5 and Samsung Bada mobile OS’s SDK/IDE already provides project templates to create HTML5 mobile apps. In addition to all this, web is full of different frameworks, which provide ways to build HTML5 based applications. I think one of the biggest expectations is that HTML5 is the “real cross platform technology for mobile application development”. Unfortunaly, I disagree.
I’ve been playing with HTML5 for couple of weeks now and I thought that I should share my view of HTML5 based mobile application development. My background is on traditional software development, programming languages and toolkits such as C/C++, Qt, iOS/Objective C, Python and Java. There is also a good reason, why I have never been interested in web technologies and reason is I don’t like the way web sites are built. For example I think the mix of HTML, Javascript and PHP looks confusing and structuring the code is rarely looks nice. Another a big obstacle for me is that, I don’t like Javascript. I think, it’s more like a “toy programming language” for kids when comparing it to C++, Objective C, Java and Python.
But as I said, I’m not a web developer. It might be that I just haven’t seen a well structured web site or my inner resistance is just too much to let me to learn these technologies well enough.