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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What is a web page vs web application? The web is so complex with features these days that pretty much everything is an application.

[–] expr@programming.dev 9 points 7 months ago

Gmail is a (bad) web application. A marketing website or even an ecommerce store are not.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

I admitted it was a spectrum, but this recent article in particular does a good job explaining the axes of static vs. dynamic : online vs. offline. I think you will appreciate it. :)