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What the fuck is a "web app"?
Is it just a website app for your phone or more than that?
>>54856409
It's short for web application. It's any form of distributed application that uses HTTP for transport.
>>54856409
its a thing that makes your PC slow and forces you to buy a new one.
>>54856451
so would a website be a web app?
I was going to make a site and I wanted to use Material Design (inb4 >botnet)
>>54856513
>so would a website be a web app?
A (dynamic) website is a form of web application, yes. But web applications are not limited to only being websites.
>>54856409
i usually go with
>if it cant be used without js enabled its a web app
like an angularjs based website, most are unusable without js, and most are also a single page website that relies on client side routing to change page/content
>ymmv
Just means it's a website with the functionality to match a desktop application. Nigger.
>>54856526
>>54856601
>>54856644
okay cool thanks
I am asking because I was thinking about making a small site that plots systems of differential equations and other plots, plotting would be done either in python or julia, haven't decided yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LptagP90asM
kind of like this, only web-based and for differential equations; so it's not really like this at all
A thin client that lives in your browser instead of being an actual program.
