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In business, another factor must often be considered. Sometimes it's more important to get an application out the door before the short-term reason for its existence has passed. Building mobile Web apps makes this possible. Numerous large corporations use thousands of different applications per year, and many of them have extremely short shelf lives. The ability to rapidly build mobile Web apps for multiple platforms at once that get the job done is critical in these situations.
Another key reason that favors mobile Web apps over native: Browsers have always had to deal with content (Web pages) authored in the past and not updated for the latest release of the browser. Backward-compatibility has been a major design requirement for those who build browsers. This is why you can still view websites authored with "ancient" tools that have not been modified in a long time and that create HTML targeted for browsers popular at the time. You can even view these sites on devices running the most recent versions of iOS or Android.
The ability in the HTML/CSS/JavaScript world to have old code that runs correctly each time you use it, and to choose the time to upgrade which browser features you take advantage of, is a real help to the developer. Any developer who has been forced to revisit old code just to continue running on the latest version of an operating system knows how helpful this ability can be. In the business world, where memory of the costs of Y2K and other "flag day" upgrades lingers, this is an important consideration. Also, the open nature of Web technologies means that different parties can keep backward-compatibility working, lessening the dependence on a single provider.
To meet the needs of businesses that must quickly mobilize their operations, yet continue to support the desktop that remains part of the flow of many business processes, we at Alpha Software created Alpha Anywhere. Alpha Anywhere is a development and deployment platform that lets businesses build quite complex, powerful, and meaningful applications deployed using HTML5, with a minimal amount of coding -- the system writes the HTML, JavaScript, and SQL and other server-side code for you.
When you need to, you can customize just the part you want with handwritten code. The property-sheet and dialog-based development environment should be comfortable to most developers, including Access programmers. It lets companies build for the mobile world with the developers they already have. And the same tool can be used to create companion big-screen applications for the desktop world as well as the touch world of Windows 8. The power of targeting JavaScript, along with HTML and CSS, makes this possible.
There are many situations, especially in business, where the benefits of an HTML/JavaScript/CSS implementation outweigh the performance hits in certain computational and display areas. As with all development, good developers need to use the right tool for the job. While there is no one "best" tool that works for everything, any programmer who ignores JavaScript is doing themselves a major disservice.