Those are the tradeoffs of webapps. They're relatively portable and don't require manual deployment for every update but web tech moves fast. The good news is t

Those are the tradeoffs of webapps. They're relatively portable and don't require manual deployment for every update but web tech moves fast. The good news is that today standards support is good enough across browsers that you should be able to write fairly durable apps if you don't push niche functionality too hard.