Yeah, you’re right. Indeed there are numerous different ways in which a page can be dynamic.

And yeah, especially over the past couple of years things really seem to have steamrollered on and are developing at a much faster pace online :).

Over the past few years we’ve seen applications previously (and solely) desktop based, be replicated on the Interent – such as document editing (as you mentioned with Google Docs), image editing etc.

I’ve thought about this before too, and the fact that most websites now make use of client-side technologies like JavaScript – and in a way, many people would consider JavaScript as a way to make web pages dynamic in some form or another. I think to an extent it depends on the context when using the term “dynamic web page”.

Although obviously, web pages have become more advanced, and more complex over time. Many web pages are also dynamic in the sense of a back-end web application dealing with the dynamic functions of a website – search fields, forums, membership systems, etc. – whether that’s with PHP, ASP.NET or another language primarily used server-side.

It surprises me with how advanced many websites are both in terms of user interface and how dynamic websites are. In fact, web apps are a popular think nowadays, like ShiftEdit, Google Docs, and so on.