Of course there's still place for native applications: movie players (VLC), audio players (Winamp), animation software (like Blender) come now to my mind, and i

Of course there's still place for native applications: movie players (VLC), audio players (Winamp), animation software (like Blender) come now to my mind, and if you look around you find more and more. The web has shifted long time ago its initial purpose: displaying and sharing documents to be a common platform to run full fledged "desktop" applications in the browser. The problem is what you want to develop and the intended audience of your application.