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web application
Also known as web-based application, webapp, web-based interface, web tool, web app, web interface, online tool
application that uses a web browser as a client
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A web application is a software program that runs in your web browser (like Chrome or Firefox) instead of needing to be installed on your computer. This matters because it means you can access the same tools and services from any device with internet access, without having to download or maintain separate software installations.
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- Commons category
- Web-based applications
- equivalent class
- schema.org/WebApplication
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10003282
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/web-applications
- Stack Exchange site URL
- webapps.stackexchange.com
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Screenshot from 2007 of Horde, a groupware and open-source web application A web application (or web app) is application software that is created with web technologies and runs via a web browser. Web applications emerged during the late 1990s and allowed for the server to dynamically build a response to the request, in contrast to static web pages.