WebApplication

As examples of Web applications, the HTML draft lists "online purchasing systems, searching systems, games (especially multiplayer online games), public telephone books or address books, communications software (e-mail clients, instant messaging clients, discussion software), document editing software, etc."

Wikipedia provides the following description of Web application and rich internet application:

 A Web application or webapp is an application that is accessed via web over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. Web applications are popular due to the ubiquity of a client, sometimes called a thin client. The ability to update and maintain Web applications without distributing and installing software on potentially thousands of client computers is a key reason for their popularity. Web applications are used to implement Webmail, online retail sales, online auctions, wikis, discussion boards, Weblogs, MMORPGs and many other functions... Rich Internet applications (RIA) are web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. RIAs typically transfer the processing necessary for the user interface to the web client but keep the bulk of the data (i.e., maintaining the state of the program, the data etc) back on the application server.

Some other Wikipedia pages related to the technologies behind Web applications and rich internet applications:

• Ajax
• DOM scripting
• client-side scripting
• Dynamic Dynamic HTML (DHTML)