How's that working out when there's more than one browser you have to account for? What's the difference between polyfill or some framework, and something like Qt or SDL?
Or I suppose we could just all use chromium, but we could also just all use Windows.
> What's the difference between polyfill or some framework, and something like Qt or SDL?
As a user, I usually can't even tell when they're using a polyfill on the web (except when they stop, like GitHub did with type=date). (As a developer, I often can't tell the difference, either. Some of them are that good!) So long as you generate HTML/CSS/JS, it doesn't matter to me how you do it. That's as 'native' to the web as you can get.
I can spot Qt a mile away. A lot of the visuals look wrong and a lot of the controls don't behave right. It's frustrating to use, and I always slow way down and double-check my work because, e.g., popup menus show the 'accept' animation even when you cancel them.
Consider that maybe there are uses for software where the web isn't necessary and isn't even the first choice.
You're a hammer, so everything is a nail. The reality is that the web is a horrible choice for a whole lot of things. It's a document platform with parts of an application platform shoe-horned in and bolted on, and the result looks like a garbage fire to people who come from the land of native software.
I'm not sure I understand why browsers getting closer to native apps ruins anything for anyone else. You're still able to hammer your nails however you want.
I'm sure it's nice for you, but users like me aren't happy that every mouse move and page load is cataloged and studied and shared with partners. At least with a native app I can add a firewall rule to restrict it's ability to use the internet.
It's equally possible you're doing the same thing by forcing users to download a native app. It's kind of hard to talk about in the abstract. Some things work better in an app, for other things it adds nothing notable.
Not sure exactly what you mean by React NativeJS but perhaps React Native for Web (https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web) is along the lines of what you are thinking?
Works remarkably well. It’s already used for Twitter’s mobile site
