James Pearce has started a fascinating series, called WhitherApps.com, trying to rewrite the BBC iPhone application and other native mobile apps using HTML5. From the kickoff blog post:

WhitherApps is a bandwagon-busting experiment. I believe there are far too many native client apps which could have been far better written as mobile web apps. What we’re going to try and do is take a few examples, apply a little reverse-engineering, and rewrite them, warts and all, with web technologies.

James has already produced three blog posts rewriting the BBC iPhone app but with HTML5 (Part I, Part II, Part III). I encourage you to read them. He’s already gotten impressively far; here is a screenshot of the HTML5 app so far:

[via kenguish]

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