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The web application may be dying, but that is in large part because the technology was never well suited to the task in the first place. When it comes to what
by randomdata 13y ago
The web application may be dying, but that is in large part because the technology was never well suited to the task in the first place.
When it comes to what the web does well, a collection of hyperlinked documents full of information, mobile devices are not necessarily how people want to consume that kind of data. Despite having a home full of mobile devices, I still reach for the computer when I want to dive deep into a subject.
- amasad 13y agoI see the web as a collection of information and information processors (applications) and don't see how can one exist without the other.
- randomdata 13y agoAn application has a more narrow definition than an information processor. An application must serve the user. For instance, if you wrote a piece of software that converts LaTeX documents into HTML upon request, I would not consider that a web application. As I take it, it would meet the definition of an information processor, however. If you built a full accounting system that presents its user interface in a web browser, I would consider that a web application. The scope is quite different.