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by Fr0styMatt8 4037 days ago
It's interesting that you mention YouTube, because the thing that finally convinced me that a 'web app' could be indistinguishable from a native app was YouTube's Leanback interface (YouTube TV). Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/tv

Video player functionality aside (I understand the complaints), that thing full-screened just feels like a native app.

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For me, it was the Netflix web client. Feels 100% as smooth as a good native app.
>For me, it was the Netflix web client. Feels 100% as smooth as a good native app.

You mean when they were using silverlight or now when they are using HTML5?

> YouTube on TV is not supported on this device?

Is it only for mobile? I didn't see any "mob" or something in the URL. Anyway, with regards to being indistinguishable from native, I guess there is nothing quite like being reminded that you are "native" than an app complaining that you are on the wrong native device. :-)

Works in Chromium on Linux for me.

In Firefox (my default br.) the message is: "Youtube on TV is not supported on this device, for more info go to: www.youtube.com/devicepartners" which is unclickable and unselectable. Modern web...

Might require MSE support (Firefox Nightly) or something.
Works fine on Ubuntu desktop, vivid, [EDIT:] chrome.
Just not on mine. :-) (with Firefox)
I never knew about this URL, thanks very much.