Some people want to be left alone in their html `pages` club where they check for errors in the w3c validator. Some people want to make the browser usurp native

Some people want to be left alone in their html `pages` club where they check for errors in the w3c validator. Some people want to make the browser usurp native applications and become the baseline for user interactions. I don't look back at the 90's with rose-colored glasses. Web was often overlooked and we were considered 2nd rate citizens among `real` software developers. These days, the browser is a competitive alternative to native and it was years of struggle to get here. Over taking a decade of "web" understanding and convincing people that "web" is capable of more than just html. The web is made up of people's decisions and their technology choices they choose to use. Which is basically written in every alistapart article since 1999. So let's not sit in nostalgia. Push forward with better technology because this thinking only makes it harder for those that invent and struggling for adoption from `thought leaders` who wish the world was just a series of hyperlinked XML pages.