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by BerislavLopac 5411 days ago
What are "Web apps" actually? Each Web app is either a) a bunch of more or less tightly connected marked-up text documents, delivered by an up running on some server somewhere, or b) two applications, one running on a server and one delivered to be executed in the visitors' browsers (or, most often, some combination of the two). There is no single thing called "Web app", even though many vendors have been trying (and failing) to make it look so.

What we need is a better way to use Internet as a platform on a large scale; sadly, none has been widely accepted so far.