Its pretty easy to make a cloud app that emulates the traditional working draft/save workflow. Browsers all have pretty reliable local storage technology now a

Its pretty easy to make a cloud app that emulates the traditional working draft/save workflow. Browsers all have pretty reliable local storage technology now a days if your network is unstable. I don't think this design choice is a compromise of the medium. If anything it seems like if you were going to have to compromise for web you would do it in the other direction so apps are more usable during poor network conditions. I would say the traditional model is a compromise from back when disks were unacceptably slow to be saving constantly.