Discovery. This is the essential difference. And this is mostly based on semantic features of html. www has 3 main ways of discovery that alternative technolog

Discovery. This is the essential difference. And this is mostly based on semantic features of html. www has 3 main ways of discovery that alternative technologies didn’t offer: 1) search (leading you to correct info in the site, instead of just to a landing page. 2) overview pages, short summary with links to the actual info (google news, etc), 3) deep hyperlinks that everyone can easily discover (browser url) and provide elsewhere (email, Facebook posts, twitter posts, etc). The first one is very much based on the semantic qualities of html, where google can crawl a page and make some educated guess about what the page is about. Biggest problem with mobile apps is that discovery is completely channeled through commercial app stores. I would like to see an alternative web tech stack that doesn’t skip the discovery part. Web assembly with canvas for example is completely useless for a search crawler.