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To ensure we’re all singing from the same hymn sheet, let’s start by defining a web application. Broadly speaking, a web application is an application that is accessed over a network, generally the Internet or an intranet. Web applications typically are built with a server-side technology (like .NET, PHP, Python, or Rails) and use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to render the application in a browser.
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© 2012 Richard Clark, Oli Studholme, Christopher Murphy and Divya Manian
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Clark, R., Studholme, O., Murphy, C., Manian, D. (2012). Paving the Way for Web Applications. In: Beginning HTML5 and CSS3. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2875-2_6
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