Do you have an example of how a web app has produced a product competitive in quality and functionality with a native offering? Office 360 is the only example I

Do you have an example of how a web app has produced a product competitive in quality and functionality with a native offering? Office 360 is the only example I can think of. Everything else is niche SaaS (or ad-paid) without clearly established desktop patterns to compete with in the first place. Meanwhile, it’s an absolute joy to use as a document browser, especially without JavaScript to mess up basic expected native behavior. I don’t get why there isn’t an “immediate mode” for application-style websites, tbh, that bypasses the DOM to provide more scalable widget layout, rendering, and interaction. I’ve written about a half-dozen “scrollable infinite list” implementations and I’ve never lost more sleep than doing this with the DOM. Probably a major reason why software is slower than ever. Hell, I just filed a bug with Patreon today complaining about how their messaging feature is so slow that, in combination with a double post bug, I ended up harassing a creator with four copies of the same message. I’d buy this thesis that the browser-as-an-app-platform is a win if people could develop their software with a comparable degree of quality, responsiveness, and resource usage. Java managed this better like 20 years ago even if it did look and behave like ass by default. Instead you now need JavaScript to read basic newspaper articles, completely obscuring the internet‘s content to everyone but google crawlers and WebKit/gecko users.