Comments on: Web Server Wording

Question: Web Server Wording

Paquda — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:25:21 -0800

"Serving-out" a web-based GUI: more natural wording?

I want to talk about an application that "serves-out" a web-based GUI to users who connect by pointing their web browsers at it. I'm drawing a blank on a more normal, English wording to use in place of "serve-out".

By: zephyr_words

zephyr_words — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:28:48 -0800

delivers, provides, displays, serves are all words I have used for web apps.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:32:16 -0800

It gives or grants access to users.
It presents a user interface.

By: zachlipton

zachlipton — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:34:26 -0800

serves, presents, displays, generates. Or just explain it's a "web application" if your audience will understand what that means.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:35:08 -0800

carsonb: "It presents a user interface."

This.

By: Dansaman

Dansaman — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:35:40 -0800

Presents
Displays
Renders
Responds with
Issues
Creates

By: Brian Puccio

Brian Puccio — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:38:35 -0800

I'd argue the browser is doing the displaying and rendering, your web server serves or transmits. Then again, there's being correct and there's being understood...

By: wongcorgi

wongcorgi — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:49:56 -0800

I would just say your application is web based. The opposite of this would be a native application.

By: Paquda

Paquda — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:54:26 -0800

I would just say your application is web based.

One complication is that the web-based GUI is just a side-point, provided for administrators to use to check up on things occasionally. But the main work performed by the application doesn't have anything to do with the web.

By: ook

ook — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:03:26 -0800

"Has a web interface for monitoring."

You don't need to specify that the interface is GUI, or that it's delivered by a webserver; both are implicit.

By: bitdamaged

bitdamaged — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:46:18 -0800

"The application provides a web based interface for administration purposes"