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A JavaScript application is a client-based app. The only difference is that you go to a url that loads your client app, versus having it already installed on yo
by asnyder 18y ago
A JavaScript application is a client-based app. The only difference is that you go to a url that loads your client app, versus having it already installed on your system.
- boucher 18y agoIt's a pretty big difference though from downloaded desktop software.
- asnyder 18y agoHow? Don't you consider Flash, Java, and Silverlight applications to be downloaded software? What if it's an AcitveX application that's served through your browser, is that a web based application?
- bprater 18y agoHrm, I've always used the verbage 'web-based app' for anything that funneled its way over to the Internet and was stuck in my browser. (Versus something that hung out on my hard drive.) Do you guys think it's inaccurate to call an app like this one that is 95% Javascript 'web-based'? If not, what is a more accurate word?
- alaskamiller 18y agoIt resides on a web server, you access it via a web browser, it's a web-based app.
- asnyder 18y agoDo you consider a Java Applet to be a web based application?
- tlrobinson 18y agoI see two levels in the hierarchy: first there's "desktop" vs "web", then within "web" there's "client-side" vs. "server-side" (or more commonly, some combination of the two). Straight up HTML and CSS pages powered by your favorite server-side technology (PHP, Rails, J2EE...) are clearly server-side web apps. I'd say page-based web apps that add some dynamism via JavaScript (like Hacker News, Reddit, etc) are still mostly server-side with a little bit of client-side stuff. 280 Slides is still a web-app, but it's almost entirely client-side. However, the lines are blurring with things like Google Gears (err... "Gears") and Adobe AIR.