The topic of web vs. native is really about APIs. Developing a native application is not preferred because it is compiled into a binary. Nobody cares about tha

The topic of web vs. native is really about APIs. Developing a native application is not preferred because it is compiled into a binary. Nobody cares about that. It is because the APIs are pleasurable to use. HTML, CSS, DOM – it is all a painful abstraction just to duplicate what the "native" APIs already provide cohesively. Projects like Cappuccino have gone a long way to hide the pain and provide a nice native-like API, but then you question why bother with the web abstractions at all? Why not just provide a decent API in the browser to begin with?