Whie these articles are great (and thanks for it), One of the biggest reasons I am excited about Firefox OS is the aim for these articles to not exist, if you do a good job building a mobile friendly web app then on Firefox OS it should 'just work'
The amount that this has proved true already is amazing, I have loved doing Firefox OS app days and seeing people spending a long time building phonegap / mobile web based applications and seeing it just work on Firefox OS, there is still a lot of work to be done but it really is the ubiquitous platform dream of mine come true.
Not sure if HTML is the ubiquitous programming platform for client side. It's a dream since 1990s (write once for all clients) but fail to compete decidedly by native clients of iOS/Android in this era. It's going to get worse for specialize smart devices such as smart watch, smart glass, smart car panel, real smart TV etc.
I am slowly transitioning to a web based IDE, my email, spreadsheets, chat client, all my communications platforms, my maps are all written in web technologies, not my entire phone is powered by web technologies (which includes most of the functionality on my desktop)
I have 3 non web based apps that I use on a daily basis (iterm, emacs, spotify), emacs I am moving away from, spotify I will move to the web based player once we have hardware media keys support.
My ubiqutous web based dream is very close to true, I think momentum and history suggests that it is going to carry on moving in that direction.
The amount that this has proved true already is amazing, I have loved doing Firefox OS app days and seeing people spending a long time building phonegap / mobile web based applications and seeing it just work on Firefox OS, there is still a lot of work to be done but it really is the ubiquitous platform dream of mine come true.