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by TeMPOraL 3859 days ago
> This mindset is precisely why native mobile applications continue to exist on the market

And long live them because there is little about the mobile experience that's more infuriating than a web app that should have been made as native. The assumption of being always on-line is baked too deep into the web stack; I have yet to see a well-made web app that could not be made significantly better UX-wise by simply going native.
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spion 3858 days ago
The UX problem isn't a matter of being online, but of not having a proper mechanism to express application UIs and styles (rather than document UIs and styles).

There are many PhoneGap applications there, and they don't make any "onlineness" assumptions. Their UI does however still suck and does not behave as expected.

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