[Iftheshoefits]

As long as enterprise continues to shift to a no-install web application based IT infrastructure, fad driven client based "web dev" will continue to increase in frequency and prominence. If (when?) people realize that the browser actually can't do everything this might change, but I wouldn't hold my breath. It's too easy to save a buck now by minimizing application development and support costs (browser-based web app vs. native) and let the poor idiot who takes over management five years from now worry about the fallout.

[antihero]

This is ridiculous. Building business applications as web applications have many advantages such as portability, network accessibility, speed of development, ease of development, speed. Over native apps. The sheer fact that you can hand off processing to the server and not block your entire ui makes the majority of web apps far better than the majority of poorly coded win forms garbage I've used.