I’ve been trying to come up with a simple test that lets you know whether some software is on the web or if it just can be made to appear in a web browser. So here we go.#
If you can hook up a piece of the app to the a piece of another app then it’s on the web. #
This comes from the basic feature of linking, which is the unique feature of the web. #
Every other feature that makes the web the web in my experience allows two things to be part of each other.#
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