This hits on one of the biggest obstacles to people perceiving web apps as "real apps". Most web pages feel, and in actually are, very disposable. You read an

This hits on one of the biggest obstacles to people perceiving web apps as "real apps". Most web pages feel, and in actually are, very disposable. You read an article at a site once, you don't want those assets to persist on your hard drive where they'll never be reused. Many people clear their caches regularly. What we need is a way for a site to say "i'm an app" which will tell the browser to store the cache in a separate bucket. Then when users go to clear their cache, there is a separate checkbox for web apps which is uncheck by default (just how passwords are unchecked by default). This is what Mozilla should be working on with it's web apps project. The installation part is just mascara. We need the browsers to do the distinguishing, not users.