What Is a Web Application?
This chapter attempts to answer two questions:
• What is the difference between a web page and a web application?
• Is your program a web page or a web application?
What’s the Difference Between a Web Page and a Web Application?
Are any of these web sites “web applications”?
• Information-only web sites such as “Conference Presentation Judo” (Figure 1-1). (No, but it’s still very good.)
FIGURE 1-1 Is this an application?1
• A fill-in form such as the one on ehealthinsurance.com (Figure 1-2). (Maybe.)
FIGURE 1-2 How about this?2
• A web applet such as the Morningstar stock comparison tool (Figure 1-3 ...
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