Editing Application software (section)

=== By coding language ===
Since the development and near-universal adoption of the [[World Wide Web|web]], an important distinction that has emerged, has been between [[web application]]s &mdash; written with [[HTML]], [[JavaScript]] and other web-native technologies and typically requiring one to be online and running a [[web browser]] &mdash; and the more traditional native applications written in whatever languages are available for one's particular [[Types of computers|type of computer]]. There has been a contentious debate in the computing community regarding web applications replacing native applications for many purposes, especially on mobile devices such as [[smartphone]]s and [[Tablet computer|tablet]]s. Web apps have indeed greatly increased in popularity for some uses, but the advantages of applications make them unlikely to disappear soon, if ever. Furthermore, the two can be complementary, and even integrated.<ref>{{cite news|first=Jean-Louis |last=Gassée |title=The Silly Web vs. Native Apps Debate |date=2012-09-17 |url=http://www.thisurlisfalse.com/the-silly-web-vs-native-apps-debate/ |access-date=2013-07-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415200141/http://www.thisurlisfalse.com/the-silly-web-vs-native-apps-debate/ |archive-date=2016-04-15 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite news | first = Casey | last = Frechette | title = What journalists need to know about the difference between Web apps and native apps | date = 2013-04-11 | url = https://www.poynter.org/news/what-journalists-need-know-about-difference-between-web-apps-and-native-apps | work = Poynter | access-date = 2017-01-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Andrew |last=Valums |title=Web apps vs desktop apps |date=2010-02-10 |url=http://valums.com/web-apps/ |work=valums.com |access-date=2013-07-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130402210926/http://valums.com/web-apps/ |archive-date=2013-04-02 }}</ref>