The Making of Fastbook: an HTML5 Love Story

It’s not a game, but it’s impressive enough it should be shown here anyway.

After all the hoopla Mark Zuckerberg made in the community by declaring “Our Biggest Mistake Was Betting Too Much on HTML5”, Mobile Framework Developers Sencha took a little bit of offense to that.

Their response was to build a HTML5-based version of the Facebook App using Sencha they called Fastbook. Check out the full blog post and the video below showing how Fastbook compares to both the Android and iOS native facebook app (Hint: pretty well).

Read the full post

Sencha Fastbook from Sencha on Vimeo.


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