Is Google Talk a web-based application or desktop-based?

Basically, any application can be divided into these two categories.


Give reasons for the same please.
Is Google Talk a web-based application or desktop-based?
Hi Seedrick,





Google Talk is available in both variants, as a web based application and also as a desktop based application.





You can access its web based application, rather 'The Google Talk Gadget' at http://www.google.com/talk/ . Once there click on 'launch google talk' . Apparently this is a richer flash based interface than the one embedded with Gmail (also a web based app. 'course! ) This Gtalk gadget can also be embedded in your iGoogle page from here: http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=... . It can also be embedded in your blog/website by getting the code from here: http://gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open...


Or it can also be integrated into the Firefox/Opera sidebar.





So this way Google Talk is a web based application since it requires no downloads at all . You just need your web browser armed with one of the latest versions of flash player, preferably version 8.0 onwards required to work with the web based gadget.





The Other variant is the desktop based client which can be downloaded by going to http://www.google.com/talk/ and clicking on 'download the google talk client' . Since this is a downloadable program and does not run in the browser therefore its not a web based application. Rather this makes it a desktop based app.





So all in all, with the google talk web based application you just need a browser connected to the internet and you can use it anywhere even away from home where the google talk software is not installed , whilst, to use the google talk client(the desktop based app.), this software must be installed on a computer to use it.
Reply:It is an application which you install and is on your desktop. The service part of course comes off the internet through the Google servers.
Reply:It's a web-based application because you need a web browser to run it.





Technically, it's not an application. It's a service.