Safety is the only differentiator. Sun legally controlled sandboxed execution on PCs, while abandoning it. HTML/JS was a poor substitute for iOS/Dalvik, but the only option without legal issues.
The linking issue is important, but not present in the mobile alternative. And networking support via XmlHttpRequest is trash compared to native sockets.
The linking issue is important, but not present in the mobile alternative. And networking support via XmlHttpRequest is trash compared to native sockets.