> There is a thing called web-development, emerged in the last couple of decades. As someone who does web development, and has been doing it for longer than th

> There is a thing called web-development, emerged in the last couple of decades. As someone who does web development, and has been doing it for longer than the last couple of decades, that statement seems unnecessarily dismissive. > But most of the web pages that people use day to day are not "documents", they are apps. While I would agree that the quantity of web pages people visit today that are 'apps' is substantially larger than it used to be, I do think there are a lot more plain HTML documents in use (particularly in boring corporate environments) than many who frequent HN would think. Of course, if you are going to call anything that executes a significant amount of Javascript an 'app', I am not sure I'm interested in the argument. My original response wasn't arguing about what was most common anyway -- you said "Web browsers are not hypertext documents viewers anymore." I was just pointing out that they still do a lot of that (and for things that I would not consider to be an 'app'). Admittedly the line between 'app' and 'document' is a bit fuzzy in some cases, but there are enough cases where (in my mind) it is not fuzzy that I still don't see your original comment as accurate.