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    I like the fact that you included statistics in your answer. Way to give tangible evidence. Commented Dec 17, 2010 at 4:27
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    unless it's a browser (although even that is changing with HTML5). Commented Dec 17, 2010 at 7:03
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    Yes, but even a browser can be used off-line :) There are many a legitimate situations where this could be used. For example in .NET a "web browser" control can be embedded in forms. This allows a desktop application to create HTML (eg reports) and have them displayed within the embedded form, the HTML file is either passed in memory (loaded from a string) or read from the hard drive. Commented Dec 17, 2010 at 12:15
  • Even web apps could be purely intranet-based and the users possibly have no internet access whatsoever. Commented Dec 17, 2010 at 13:47