Thanks, helpful. Cc'ing @slightlylate who may have good news on horizon.
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Replying to @BrendanEich @ken_wheeler and
I'm so stoked for Web Share API. I think I heard Twitter's rolling that out on Lite...
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Replying to @rubencodes @BrendanEich and
Yep! We're doing Web Share and Share Target: https://github.com/WICG/web-share https://github.com/WICG/web-share-target … Houdini APIs for smoothness.
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Replying to @slightlylate @rubencodes and
In particular, Animation Worklet will give us off-main-thread pan/swipe animation. Custom paint to reduce element count.
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Replying to @slightlylate @rubencodes and
But at a level that's really hard for some folks to accept, none of this really compares in importance to app size & distribution friction.
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Replying to @slightlylate @rubencodes and
...and native apps aren't OK there. They're really, really not. Primed for disruption (to use a phrase I loathe).
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Replying to @slightlylate @rubencodes and
GMail never got perfect Cocoa or MFC/Win32 fidelity; didn't matter. Distribution friction is what counts if you aren't Google or Facebook.
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Replying to @slightlylate @rubencodes and
Delivering a React Native bundle to a browser doesn't seem like a huge burden. Smaller than many websites.
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Replying to @jamonholmgren @rubencodes and
The problem is streaming execution. Browsers know how to start executing from the first byte; native apps don't.
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To be fair, though, the JS-first trend is pretty handily destroying this advantage, sooooo.....
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