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IMHO the distinction is simple: It's a web app if turning off JS means you cannot see anything but a blank page.
by userbinator 3y ago
IMHO the distinction is simple: It's a web app if turning off JS means you cannot see anything but a blank page.
- simonw 3y agoThere are plenty of web apps that work just fine with JavaScript disabled though. I describe my project Datasette a web app, and it works fine without JavaScript: https://datasette.io/content/datasette_repos https://datasette.io/content/datasette_repos (Amusingly I do have a version of it that runs as a completely client-side SPA, by executing the server-side Python code entirely in the browser using WebAssembly: https://lite.datasette.io/#/content/datasette_repos https://lite.datasette.io/#/content/datasette_repos )
- DANmode 3y agoNo True Scotsman argument inbound. As Simon alluded: Those are just one type of webapp. Find the best examples possible to criticize when writing off a major technological trend.
- solardev 3y agoAll this means is that the logic was shifted client-side. You could move it all to the backend and render the HTML there if you'd rather. (I wouldn't, but it'd still be a web app, IMO). Kinda like old school Mapquest that was server-side, vs Google Maps that used client-side tile fetches. But both are still web apps, no?