[resu_nimda]

I can't remember the last time I opened a native email or word processing application on desktop. I much prefer the web experience. What makes it the wrong tool? What's the point of these silly rules?

You want to build applications? Use whatever freakin tool or platform your users will adopt. Don't be constrained by pointless prescriptivism.

[still_grokking]

It's not a "silly rule" that the web is not for application development. It's about the technology as such!

An example what I mean: One can use a stone to put nails into a wall. But a hammer is clearly the better tool for that task.

[ziftface]

But what about users who actually prefer some web applications, like the user you responded to? To them, the web application is the hammer. I mean really who gets to decide which is better besides the user?