Its examples are pulled from a set of 22 high-profile (and generally high-quality) sources including the New York Times, the Independent, Forbes, and ScienceDirect.

Learn about what I call "Web 2.01," a fusion of "Web 2.0" style application content with a "Rich Internet Application" client, which is not subject to many of the limitations of a Web browser.

The result is one of the highest-profile examples of what's called a progressive web app, a technology that could rejuvenate the web and challenge the power of app stores.

Some examples of popular web apps include Google Maps, Starbucks, Tinder, Uber, and Instagram. Ironically, iOS was actually the first platform to support the concept of PWAs.