[LINK] RFC: Web 2.0

[Pilcher, Fred]

Linda wrote:

> Sorry - I guess it doesn't make that much sense if you dont know the 
> application...
> The point I was trying to make ( and poorly obviously) is that the 
> web 2 interface allows the web interface to Cumulus to  be 
> _identical_ to the original application ie the first web interface 
> looks very different from the application on the desktop whereas the 
> web 2 one has the same look and feel as the actual app.

Thanks Linda. 

Please forgive my dullness, a quality for which I'm well-known among Linkers. I'm not trying to be argumentative - I really would like to understand what web 2 is.

It seems to me that I could knock up something that looks like the web 2 example using current (ostensibly web 1) tools. Can you explain what's different, in the examples you linked, to a simple redesign of the interface; what specific elements of web 2, that aren't available to me using web 1 technology, allow it to look like the locally-installed application?

Do web 2 sites require different hardware? Different software? At the server end? At the client end? Does it use different protocols? Are there incompatibilities? Can I use web 1 and web 2 at the same time? On the same computer? On the same network?

Thanks again.

Fred 
  
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