The GP is talking about look and feel, not native vs multiplatform components. The point about everybody converging to the flat paradigm that evolved from the

The GP is talking about look and feel, not native vs multiplatform components. The point about everybody converging to the flat paradigm that evolved from the mobile web is a valid one. What is good for small touch devices may not be for large mouse-driven ones; the removal of affordances and button labels in particular is a problem in the new style favored by web designers. However, I would also complaint against developers trying to make web applications feel like desktop ones, with window management and all, which is a similarly recurring and worrying trend.