[mkmcdonald]

> Web technology is great for many things. Replicating a native app experience is not one of them.

Yep.

The client-side environment is far too unstable to build a "native app". There's a reason why monumental frameworks like ExtJS barely work in IE 9.

[MatthewPhillips]

Windows 8 allows you to build native apps in HTML/JS. You would be very hard pressed to tell any difference at all.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Windows 8 also provides a consistent set of APIs across all languages supported: JScript, C#, C++ and VB.NET. There's nothing you can do in C# that you can't do in JScript on Windows 8, with the possible exception of DirectX.

[wmf]

Are we talking plain vanilla HTML/JS or HTML/JS+Metro extensions? Also, I guess those apps don't have to be cross-browser.

[MatthewPhillips]

There are extensions.