Hybrid apps commonly use HTML5 code for the screen and basic description but have an additional envelope of code that gives the app features that HTML5 cannot do: take a GPS reading, read input from a barcode, have and manage a database, etc.
Conclusion - drive net new revenue with new services by delivering a greater user experience (via access to native OS APIs).
Sites like http://caniuse.com and http://html5test.com exist because of the massive fragmentation among HTML5 browsers. Also refer to html5rocks.comKony doesn’t use HTML5 as a shortcut to cross-platform support, instead:Kony generates HTML5 specific to each browser so your customers get the best out of their browser and aren’t affected by the limitations of other browsers.
----- Meeting Notes (12/6/11 14:49) Aaron Kaufman -----Build 1: In order to leverage HTML5 in your organization is it an advanced assembly effort of multiple components. To highlight a few of them - today you will not find a comprehensive package of JavaScript APIs, multi-device preview, multi-device layout manager and especially assembled infrastructual components, such as a services broker, JSON Server and device optimization capabilities.Build 2: Oh, and by the way, by doing the above you only capture 37% of the global devices in your efforts. This is because there are only a few devices that have HTML5 capable browsers.Build 3: The KonyOne HTML5 Platform is a fully integrated development and deployment system. We have full HTML5 capabilities with all the expectations of the enterprise. Build 4: With the same code base in developing the HTML5 output, you also get mobile web, HTML5, in a device specific deployment determined by our device specific database rendering capabilities. This allows you to reach 98% of the devices in the market: All Smart Phones, feature phones, tablets, and traditional desktop web!