RE: [great help example for a web-based app]

["Darren Barefoot" <darren -dot- barefoot -at- capeclear -dot- com>]

While I agree with the basic sentiment that "the difference, if you
adhere to this definition, is that the amount of interactivity in a web
application is much higher than it is in a web site," I'm afraid your
criterium is pretty weak. After all, when I use Amazon, I already have
sets of data that I "own" on the site. These include my address, credit
card information, product reviews, favourites lists. For all of these, I
can "add and delete information."

Maybe you're thinking of something like PCAnywhere, where you're
accessing your own remote resources. This is, undeniably, a Web
application, but it's far too narrow a definition. Thanks. DB.

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> Subject: RE: [great help example for a web-based app]
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> IMHO, the differentiator is the ownership of the data.
> 
> If you access a site and use someone else's data - as you 
> would on Amazon, for example - it is not a web application, 
> it is a web site that provides some sort of e-commerce.
> 
> If, however, you access a site where you use your own data, 
> where you can do more than just pick something to buy, where 
> you can add and delete information, make changes to the data, 
> then it is a web application.
> 
> The difference, if you adhere to this definition, is that the 
> amount of interactivity in a web application is much higher 
> than it is in a web site.



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