[Vinnl]

I always wonder what it is that these apps need that cannot be done as regular web apps, as the web platform has provided more and more controlled ways to break out of the browser sandbox. (This is not rethorical by the way.)

[_0w8t]

PNaCl is (or should I use "was") not limited to HTTP and can use UDP/TCP directly. So things like SSH clients are possible.

[hisyam]

Some devs want to develop js apps without paying/maintaining a server.

[Vinnl]

Since they're just static files, that should be pretty easy to do :)

[hisyam]

Some js apps need to work with database.

eg: I'd like to build an expense tracker with html/css/js/sqlite but I want it to be offline and the user can choose to save their db file in their dropbox/gdrive folder.