On one hand, the browser strives to be the universal OS shell
Then there is no need for the browser. We can download an app and run it on a portable VM on any hardware. Or am I missing something?
I thought the whole point of the browser was to use HTTP to fetch HTML and CSS and render them. With a few sprinkle of some scripting language to manipulate the DOM and make things interactive when needed.
But why would still need a browser if everything becomes an app? Another layer of abstraction and virtualisation will just waste time and incur hardware costs.
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Then there is no need for the browser. We can download an app and run it on a portable VM on any hardware. Or am I missing something?
I thought the whole point of the browser was to use HTTP to fetch HTML and CSS and render them. With a few sprinkle of some scripting language to manipulate the DOM and make things interactive when needed.
But why would still need a browser if everything becomes an app? Another layer of abstraction and virtualisation will just waste time and incur hardware costs.