> The web won. I wish that were true. We wrote a navigation application with GPS, turn-by-turn instructions, fullscreen-mode, always-on-screen and more. This i

> The web won. I wish that were true. We wrote a navigation application with GPS, turn-by-turn instructions, fullscreen-mode, always-on-screen and more. This is possible directly in the browser! (its open source) But the problem is that even if you pick Chrome as target you'll still have a lot of problems to solve. Can you disable the display to save battery for your long hiking tour and navigate just by voice? A native app can do that in the background, but I have not found a way to make this possible for a web app. And then there are many Web APIs (sensor API, always on screen), that are only implemented by Chrome. Or did you mean "Chrome won" :) ?