Timeline for When to make (file.nb) instead of (file.cdf)?

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Jun 14, 2012 at 23:50	history	edited	Albert Retey	CC BY-SA 3.0	added an example of differences between the two formats
Jun 12, 2012 at 21:18	history	edited	Albert Retey	CC BY-SA 3.0	reformulating to make clearer intentent of answer
Jun 12, 2012 at 21:18	comment	added	Albert Retey		@TedErsek: of course you are right, they could have made such restrictions. What WRI has published about CDF documents isn't exhaustive, and leaves us with some guessing. I have reformulated the answer and hope it is now more clear that I neither consider this answer as complete in any sense nor would expect you to accept it anytime soon nor would want to prevent anyone from giving additional answers...
Jun 12, 2012 at 16:09	comment	added	Ted Ersek		there is more to it than that. WRI could have made it so you can't use the Option Inspector to modify a CDF file. They could have made it so you can't use Drawing Tools in a CDF file. It turns out you can use Mathematica to do these things, but you can't know that from looking at the file with a text editor. I found out that I can do those things because I tried and they worked. The problem is that there are a few hundred other features that may or may not work.
Jun 12, 2012 at 13:26	history	answered	Albert Retey	CC BY-SA 3.0