BBC iOS app recreated with HTML5

Not long after I made this post, hacker news posted an expirement by http://whitherapps.com/ that is remaking the BBC news app in HTML5. Looks like he is making some headway. This is just an experiment to prove what is possible. Hopefully this catches on and we quit getting all of these os specific apps instead of websites.
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Quit making apps for every damn website

iOS apss are the new hotness right now. Every website needs an app to represent??? WTF? Wake up people. Apps have a place, it isn't recreating the website for a single platform. I understand how this came about. Three years ago when apple turned the smart phone world around, no one had a website designed for the new touch interface. iPhone didn't have support for native apps yet and everyone scrambled to make web apps. It also didn't have support for html5 and css3 with it's awesomeness of hardware accelerated t…more
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