[mythtv-users] MyMote iPhone Remote Control For Mythtv

[Chase Douglas]

On May 1, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

> Curious as to why you chose to develop a native app instead of a web-
> based one that would be useful to more than just the iPhone/iPod Touch
> like this one:
> http://legatissimo.info/node/355

The web-based application is interesting, but there are a few reasons  
why I chose to develop a native application:

1. I wanted to play around with the iPhone SDK (hey, it's how most  
cool open source apps start...)
2. I'm a much better c programmer than web developer
3. Though I cannot comment to much, nor can I assume I am correct on  
this, but my belief is that a web app with the same functionality  
would require a lot of AJAX. I have heard that AJAX, while it has been  
abstracted by some libraries, is not as clean an API as a native SDK  
can provide.
4. I haven't looked through Apple's documentation for the web apps,  
but my guess is that even if it does support interfaces like the date  
picker and buttons and scrollviews and such that are provided in the  
native SDK, those implementations may only work on an iPhone or iPod  
touch anyways. For instance, how can one provide multitouch inputs  
through a web browser? I'm not sure you could load up Firefox and  
expect to have the same interface and usability for all of the  
elements used.

In the end it mostly came down to personal preference and abilities.  
Of course, I don't mean to compete against any web based  
implementations; hopefully, both will thrive in their own ways.

Thanks