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# This Way of Talking About the Web Does it a Great Disservice
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/this-way-of-talking-about-the-web-does-it-a-great-disservice/
- Published: 2021-11-03T15:10:33.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-03T15:10:33.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? | Transitional Apps with Rich Harris (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=860d8usGC0o&ref=birchtree.me)

> We talk about documents vs apps as thought it were a dichotomy, but it's not, it's a spectrum. When we erase the stuff in the middle we do the web a great disservice. It's a medium that by its very nature resists definitional boundaries.

I love this so much (the rest of the talk is good too!).