Bangalore: Amidst multi-million acquisitions and ruthless tech lawsuits, the clash between the two most popular technologies of the Smartphone-controlled era, Native apps and Web apps is taking a mammoth’s shape. Meanwhile, Facebook, Google and Apple seem to be all tangled up in their own webs of apps, popularity and revenue.

 With a hope for HTML5 to recover quickly from its drawbacks and the ever-changing preferences of users and consumers, it has become a very difficult game of chess for the tech giants to take a side between Native apps or web based apps.

 Here are some facts and happenings of the market that could decide the course of this clash that might take ages to conclude.

1. Facebook’s HTML5 testing suite

Apple and Google have been concentrating on the drawbacks of HTML5 a bit too much while Facebook has already taken its step towards web dominance by launching the HTML testing suite, Ringmark. The suite allows testing of apps on compatible browsers and would invoke developers to produce HTML5 based applications.