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OK, then, sorry if I'm being dense, but how can it be "for serving web apps"? App seems an odd term for a site consisting of only static files.

• packetslave 13y ago
  Perhaps you've heard of this new language, JavaScript?
  • ds9 13y ago
    Still not much of an app unless the JS does AJAX, but then it's talking to a server that's running some dynamic process, maybe with DB access etc. - right?
    • Isofarro 13y ago
      Not necessarily. You can make an ajax request to a static resource. The server doesn't have to be a dynamic process. Static resources are just files. A client-side JavaScript Twitter could be done this way. Every tweet, or timeline can be pre-baked into a static json file, and ajaxed in. Twitter can then be simplified to a backend application that updates these files. Granted, tweeting is a separate matter; that requires an endpoint that processes data.
      • WhitneyLand 13y ago
        Cross-domain REST is the big win. MongoLab, APIs, Widgets, etc.