There are many apps that don't consist of representing and manipulating hyperlinked documents, though. For example, games. Would Angry Birds be better if it was built out of DOM nodes? Would an night-sky astronomy visualization app? Would a synthesizer?
These are the types of things people make Chrome apps for. And frankly, I don't see the advantage of those being built out of "standards-conforming semantic markup" versus just manipulating the browser's APIs directly.
These are the types of things people make Chrome apps for. And frankly, I don't see the advantage of those being built out of "standards-conforming semantic markup" versus just manipulating the browser's APIs directly.