Web App概念的兴起,起源于HTML5标准的逐渐成熟和大型互联网公司的推动。这其中包括百度的框计算、谷歌运行于Chrome上的Web App Store以及Facebook的HTML5项目“斯巴达”(Project Spartan)。前两个项目当前主要侧重于PC端,而Facebook的Spartan可以说主要是瞄准了移动端的用户市场。
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A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet . The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language (such as JavaScript, combined with a browser-rendered markup language like HTML) and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.