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I was speaking from the perspective of devices, namely phones. The way to launch apps is by clicking a "desktop" icon. More broadly stated, you need a way to h

I was speaking from the perspective of devices, namely phones. The way to launch apps is by clicking a "desktop" icon. More broadly stated, you need a way to hook into the local environment so that HTML5 sites aren't distinguishable from locally-run/stored apps.

grahamburger 16y ago
That does make sense. What I'm saying is that the way I currently use my desktop is mostly for web based apps which don't have any local hook (other than the browser itself) and that when I can do the same thing on my phone, I will. For me, the lack of a local hook outside of the browser doesn't detract from the experience or my productivity, and in fact makes it easier to find the local apps that I do have, because I don't have to scroll through all of the hooks to the web apps.