If the web had decent components for apps with a consistent look, behavior and data model across browsers, perhaps this is how things could be. Fact is, after 38 (!) years HTML does not have a data list component that works well (what I mean is [1], something that I could put 10.000+ items in and expect to work. Something useful). I don't know about you but I'm not even 38 years old, so given that people are starting talking to me about midlife crisis, implying I'm about halfway to death by natural causes, I think at this point I should conclude I will be dead before the web will have basic usable working components.

Also I hate the totally inconsistent look of the components we do have. I mean anything I make on linux or windows is close to intolerable on mac. Which is, of course, why all designers totally avoid them and instead just totally redesign everything from scrollbars to buttons.

The web is ... decent ... for what are essentially slide handouts ("websites"). Let's start making some real applications now.

[1] http://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/qlistwidget.html