>As browsers get smarter native apps will introduce new interaction models, hardware accesses and new features. Those will get folded into HTML 9, then HTML 10 and the cycle will continue.
So in other words, the latest web technology will always be lagging behind. Yeah, that's pretty obvious.
But the sad thing is we're comparing two already horribly flawed systems. No one in their right mind should be arguing in terms of a locked-down, Disney-fied, compartmentalized experience versus a slow, infuriatingly clumsy and intermittently-available simulacrum of the same thing. We need to own our own devices and create, modify, and deploy our own software on our own terms. (And please don't insult my intelligence by claiming that the ability to browse to any given URL can constitute these freedoms in any materially useful way.) To publicly ask for anything less is so lacking in imagination and ambition as to be criminal; it serves only to reinforce the pathetic productivity-destroying dichotomy seemingly being forced upon us.
So in other words, the latest web technology will always be lagging behind. Yeah, that's pretty obvious.
But the sad thing is we're comparing two already horribly flawed systems. No one in their right mind should be arguing in terms of a locked-down, Disney-fied, compartmentalized experience versus a slow, infuriatingly clumsy and intermittently-available simulacrum of the same thing. We need to own our own devices and create, modify, and deploy our own software on our own terms. (And please don't insult my intelligence by claiming that the ability to browse to any given URL can constitute these freedoms in any materially useful way.) To publicly ask for anything less is so lacking in imagination and ambition as to be criminal; it serves only to reinforce the pathetic productivity-destroying dichotomy seemingly being forced upon us.