This is a Ruby client for the Box View API. This library provides access in Ruby to the Box View API. Box View is a service that converts documents to HTML5, allowing files to be embedded into web and mobile applications.
Rendering engines inside browsers have been the subject of some of the fiercest debate across the Web. Although HTML5 represents a significant advance in terms of the richness of Web applications, industry giants such as Facebook have balked over what are often described as “black box” implementations of rendering engines in browsers that support HTML5 and that were not nearly as fast as native environments on mobile computing devices.
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Remember when Mark Zuckerberg blamed the problematic old Facebook mobile app--dubbed "freakishly slow" by some--on "betting too much on HTML 5?" So does backend-as-a-service (BAAS) provider Sencha, and to rebut Zuckerberg's assertion that using HTML5 was "one of [Facebook's] biggest mistakes," Sencha built its own mobile webapp, Fastbook, to demonstrate that HTML5 is ready for prime time.
