What even is a web browser?
A number of things (some of which I will share later this month) have me thinking about this question. It probably seems silly at first, but it's suprisingly kind of interesting - and maybe important question.
The other day, Chris Coyier wrote a post called What is Chromium without Chrome on top that hit on some things I've been thinking about/discussing recently too, so I thought I'd share a bit more.
To the vast majority of people, a web browser is - you know, "the button for the internet". It's that icon that you click to somehow navigate the web. I mean, what could be simpler?
Within the web community, we break this down pretty commonly into "engines" and "browsers". The common description of which is roughly something like...
However, this is actually kind of incomplete, and quite a lot of interesting and important conversations and debates require more. Sadly, as you dig into it - things can get a little overloaded and confusing.
