1Q EARNINGS: Mark Zuckerberg Says ‘Timing Matters’ On HTML5

Despite Facebook’s move away from HTML5 and toward building its own native applications, Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke kindly of HTML5 during the company’s first-quarter earnings call Wednesday.

HTML5Logo650Despite Facebook’s move away from HTML5 and toward building its own native applications, Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke kindly of HTML5 during the company’s first-quarter earnings call Wednesday.

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Analyst Carlos Kirjner asked Zuckerberg during the question-and-answer portion of the earnings call:

How do you think about the evolution of browser technology, HTML5, and development tools versus native apps? If you look two to three years out, do you think native apps could finally become less important for many use cases? Or, in other words, maybe you guys were not wrong when you tried HTML5 — you were just too early.

Zuckerberg responded:

Yeah, well, timing matters a lot, and so I do think that there’s nothing wrong with the standard of HTML5 technically.

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