> Honestly, I wish we could just skip straight to nothing but web apps

Why must you curse us like that? Web apps became such a clusterfuck because HTML and the world-wide-web were never intended to run applications, but more and more was piled upon it until it somehow did.

Apps in the browser have shown undeniable advantages, but now that we've seen what we need, why not design a cross-platform toolkit that allows web apps through a protocol actually designed for applications. Something like Java/Flash tried to do, but using what we learned about web apps, back ends, and standardization.