>>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.