I don’t think so. Here are features of Web apps that I think are essential:
# URL addressable
# Always sandboxed
# Works in browser (back button, etc)
# Open to Greasemonkey and DOM manipulation
(Link: The Essence Of Web Applications)
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The Essence Of Web Applications
Link: On Rack- Tim Bray
On Rack- Tim Bray
Notice the other Rack trick: that triple of HTTP status, HTTP headers, and message body that you have to return. Anyhow, I’m not going to reproduce the page of HTML this thing gives you; But I do recommend running this if you’re going to play with Rack, to find out what’s really in that hash.


April 5, 2009
