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I think there's a distinction to be made between "web pages" and "web apps". Web pages like news articles and blog posts fit well in the semantic document model of HTML. Web apps extend past this model -- something like DPS would make more sense for them.

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I think the lack of such a clear distinction is part of the web's success. For example, is Facebook a web page or a web app?

>For example, is Facebook a web page or a web app?

Is this a trick question? :) On the scale from pages to apps, where one end is someone's static geocities page about their cats and the other end is, let's say, github: Facebook is definitely an app.

It's kind of a trick question in that my point is that it is a more of a scale than a binary opposition, and that the ability to mix document-like parts with program-like parts is what made the web so incredibly successful.

Well clearly, Facebook "pages" are web pages. They have it in the name, they have static URLs, their own content.

And other parts of Facebook, like the chat, are hard to describe as a page.

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