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Patricia Shanahan wrote:

> Stefan Weiss wrote:
>> On 2012-10-06 21:29, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>> From what I understand about your project, you have two options: the
>> HTML+JS approach you described plus a server-side component, or you bite
>> the bullet and build native apps for each target platform. You could
>> still do most of the layout/navigation parts in HTML+JS, but your app
>> will have to handle the email part.
>> [...]
> 
> The small native application idea is an interesting possibility. […]
> Once it works, if it turns out to be useful but needs iPad support, I
> would bite the bullet, get over my admittedly unfair prejudice against
> Macs based on the way they were in the 1980's, and buy a Mac to do iPad
> development. In this approach, the piece that would need to be rewritten
> would be small and simple.

You might also want to look into <http://phonegap.com/>.  (This is not a 
recommendation, nor one against it.)


PointedEars
-- 
> If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices"
> in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right...
Not with javascript. Nonsense propagates like wildfire in this field.
  -- Richard Cornford, comp.lang.javascript, 2011-11-14