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Well, when I want internet I launch browser. When I need something else, I launch an app. More likely than not it gets data from some web server via HTTP and in JSON. It may even use bits of HTML for some views. Who cares. I don't get this obsession to defeat native on mobiles. Like don't get at all. Some dark thoughts start to creep in: maybe that's just some lazy webdevs who see mobile as new hotness but cannot be bored to learn native try to pull the only thing they know into that space? If embeded programming will be the new hotness, will we see the same? Why complain about developers developing for Android and iOS, but not metion those developing for Windows or OS X? And throwing half-baked (at best) features so just some capabilities can be checked on the HTML-on-mobile laundry list won't make them more fun to work with. How's that offline web apps thing going?


>How's that offline web apps thing going?

it was going just fine until apple disabled it in iOS7

but despite that setback, google continues to bank its entire business on offline web apps.




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