What is a Web application?
I was asked recently by Andy Favell from mobiThinking what is exactly a Web application? What distinguishes it from “just” a Web site?
(in that discussion, I distinguish Web apps, i.e. “applications” that run inside the browser, from widgets (in the W3C sense), and in general, Web-technologies based applications: a widget is a packaged/downloadable/installable Web application; as such, it’s closer to a traditional app than a Web app; they share with Web applications the use of HTML/CSS/JavaScript and access to the network as a primary feature.)