Smart Phones Application development using HTML5 and related technologies: A tradeoff between cost and quality

Smart Phone Revolution has forced companies to develop the smart phone versions of their applications. Smart Phone market is very fragmented and volatile and there is no single dominant platform. Building native applications for all the platforms is too costly and time consuming. As HTML5 is emerging as a viable option for building cross platform applications, experts are debating their quality and cost effectiveness. In this research paper we have evaluated the quality as per ISO 9126 and look closely where HTML5 based applications are standing against the major quality factors of ISO 9126. In this paper HTML5 based applications were evaluated against the quality factors like Functionality, Usability, Efficiency, Maintainability, Reliability and Portability. We have also discussed the possible cost effectiveness of HTML5 based applications in comparison with native application development.