Some people want to be left alone in their html `pages` club where they check for errors in the w3c validator. Some people want to make the browser usurp native applications and become the baseline for user interactions.<p>I don&#x27;t look back at the 90&#x27;s with rose-colored glasses. Web was often overlooked and we were considered 2nd rate citizens among `real` software developers. These days, the browser is a competitive alternative to native and it was years of struggle to get here. Over taking a decade of &quot;web&quot; understanding and convincing people that &quot;web&quot; is capable of more than just html.<p>The web is made up of people&#x27;s decisions and their technology choices they choose to use. Which is basically written in every alistapart article since 1999. So let&#x27;s not sit in nostalgia. Push forward with better technology because this thinking only makes it harder for those that invent and struggling for adoption from `thought leaders` who wish the world was just a series of hyperlinked XML pages.