The early web days were spend developing basic web pages without any complex tools.<p>These days everyone seems to think they need an application style site, and whilst some sites really do benefit from this approach, others don&#x27;t.<p>The trinity of web standards (html&#x2F;js&#x2F;css) are still valid for informational, mostly static web pages, but are impractical for developing applications.<p>The discussion of what is a web application is a tricky one to put a finger on, with a lot of grey area. I think of a classic web page being the about us page of a website, while an application is something like photoshop. In between you have things like twitter, or gmail, amazon, facebook etc.