Re: The ever encroaching blur between web apps and apps

Interesting stuff. 

However I do not consider any app, that requires more than the basic 
browser, a "Web App" . Even if a application is running as a Active X 
control or Java Applet, I don't think of it as a web app. It is a just a 
application that uses http protocol. I think a better term is "Online 
Application, rather then calling them "Web App"

I have been writing web based Java applications since W3C released the 
first version of Jigsaw Java webserver. And I have tried to make them 
independent of any client side plug-ins.

Having said that, I do realize that some applications will require plug-in 
to run in web browsers. Here is a interesting Slashdot discussion on 
Online Application that run in browsers, but require plug-ins:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/12/1948219&tid=185
Some interesting applications are listed in this discussion.

Thanks.
Saqib Ali
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"Mark Curphey" <mark@curphey.com> wrote on 08/30/2004 06:53:43 AM:

> Anyone else any other good observations on the topic ?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnintlong/h
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