Like extensions, they can “cut across websites and web apps,” and thus can be used to present “mash-ups” of data from multiple Internet sites. They may or may not obtain data from the Internet, but their initialization and interaction with the user are controlled by Javascript and HTML that are stored on the user’s computer and run in the Chrome browser. Packaged apps ( ), by contrast, run entirely in the browser without being served from an external Web site, and thus do not necessarily require an Internet connection. Hosted apps are what this article describes: externally-hosted Web sites launched via a browser icon that may (since they know they will be running in Chrome) take advantage of some of the advanced capabilities of Chrome and HTML5. “Web apps… are nothing more than interactive websites at this point in time…A web app basically is a link to an interactive application on the Internet.”Īctually, there are two kinds of Web apps, “hosted” apps and “packaged” apps. There are two oversights in this otherwise informative article: Google's intention is to formalize "the web app concept in a way that will be familiar to anyone who’s used apps on a smartphone".Ī web app basically is a link to an interactive application on the Internet. Web apps therefor are nothing more than interactive websites at this point in time. Web apps, according to Google are "applications you can run inside your browser with a dedicated user interface and, typically, rich user interaction". Web apps on the other hand are available at the Chrome web store.īut there is more to it than just a different location on the Internet. The majority of extensions is available at the Google Chrome extensions gallery. Lets take a look first at how extensions and web apps can be installed. The terminology can be confusing and this article tries to explain the differences. Recently the Google Chrome Web Store was added to the browser which has added web apps to the picture.
Google Chrome has supported extensions, sometimes called add-ons, for some time now.
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