The Web Is The Platform

Amazon’s HTML 5-based Kindle-reading application sparked a storm of activity in the development space around mobile native applications vs. HTML 5 based applications. Although there are lots of opinions about which will win out, one thing is clear: the Web has become the platform.

I think this was the original vision of the Web back in the day. It provided cross-platform publishing that, ideally, could be consumed regardless of device. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Different browser im...