> It's entirely possible to write an offline-capable web app.
Yeah. It is entirely possible to make web app do a lot of things. Even do them cross-platform. Even to get almost native feel.
But when you are done doing it you understand, that going native even on each platform would be faster and cheaper.
And thus the reasons to keep trying to improve those stories. Offline is import for applications. Many web applications make perfect sense to also work offline, and if that can be done easily, then what's the argument? I'd agree that looking like a native app by matching look and feel is probably not a great plan, but I also just fundamentally don't understand the attitude of saying that the web should be relegated to blogs/news/wikipedia style pages and leave everything else to native app silos.
