I was very bullish on mobile HTML5 apps a couple of months but that has changed. As a user I really appreciate native apps on iOS and their overall consistent UI and efficient use of the limited screen real estate.
Basecamp feels totally different compared to other native apps on the iPhone: the back button looks weird, no fixed navigation bar and I'd expect to see the typical tab bars (all things you currently can't really imitate with HTML/CSS/JS).
It may not be a shit sandwich (as in http://daringfireball.net/2007/06/wwdc_2007_keynote ) but still it's clearly a trade-off driven by developmnt concerns. I totally understand that it's not really feasable to develop native apps for all those mobile platforms out there, but again it doesn't feel like a decision made from the user's perspective.
Basecamp feels totally different compared to other native apps on the iPhone: the back button looks weird, no fixed navigation bar and I'd expect to see the typical tab bars (all things you currently can't really imitate with HTML/CSS/JS).
It may not be a shit sandwich (as in http://daringfireball.net/2007/06/wwdc_2007_keynote ) but still it's clearly a trade-off driven by developmnt concerns. I totally understand that it's not really feasable to develop native apps for all those mobile platforms out there, but again it doesn't feel like a decision made from the user's perspective.