[onemoreact]

Web pages are still terrible for rich content. For the web to really work you need something that is A) stable B) ridiculousness cross platform C) Fast both to load AND run D) degrades gracefully on limited Hardware, interfaces, AND network connectivity. HTML has always been a compromise and Adobe was incapable of maintaining and expanding Flash.

An opensource solution might be able to bridge the gap, but until then App's have significant advantages for users and developers alike.

[lukifer]

What universe are you living in? The web sites/apps I use do all the things you describe, on desktop and mobile, excepting perhaps that most do not function offline (though the capability exists, the adoption rate is still low).

What's wrong with HTML being a compromise? Most things are compromises. What started off as hyper-linked rich text is a now a pretty-good (and completely open) software platform that really does work on just about any computing device there is, which would have seemed like a crazy pipe dream 20 years ago. What's the problem?