There's also the tiny problem that The Daily's content never did much that HTML5 couldn't. The best thing I can say in The Daily's favor is that the app took a

There's also the tiny problem that The Daily's content never did much that HTML5 couldn't. The best thing I can say in The Daily's favor is that the app took advantage of the native frameworks for kerning and text layout, even if the hyphenation was screwed up. For an app like The Daily to take better advantage of being a native app, there'd have be better tools available to content creators so that they can actually use those features. Camera input. Keyframe animations. Multitrack audio. Even, dare I say it, 3D content.