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> i.e. all the user navigation is done within the app UI, not the browser UI

Not sure if that's what you mean here, but when this breaks the “back”, “next”, “refresh”, “bookmark” or “share URL” features of my web browser (among others), I hate whoever has been responsible of the design as much as I've hated Flash in the past.

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I'll offer the distinction is rather you're using a "web site" or a "web app".

A web site should never break your browser. A web app should be able to run in "Full Screen" mode without needing to use the web browser UI.

I get it, and I think the distinction is relevant, indeed. Unfortunately, way too many developers think it's a good idea to build a web app instead of a web site, when it's not. Same issue as with Flash before, in fact.

have you not used a client-side router in like 5 years? you just plug one in and BAM browserHistory, etc.

I don't do frontend development. But I'm still forced to /use/ websites the developers of which have never used one, obviously.

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