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What is a Browser?
- ColinWright 15y agoAgain? Here are a few earlier submissions - there are more: http://searchyc.com/submissions/what+is+a+browser?page=1 http://searchyc.com/submissions/what+is+a+browser?page=1 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662105 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662105 <- This one has comments. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057769 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057769 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=653962 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=653962 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626482 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626482 Here's a comment from earlier: More and more, producers of programs are hiding the details, making it easier for people to just get on with things and solve their problems, without having to worry about the details of how it happens, and the machinery underneath. Then others, no doubt technical people, go and interview the users in order to show just how ignorant they all are. Did I get that right? If you want to make computers and services easy to use, you don't want people to be able to answer these questions. You want people to find your service, use it, and remain completely unaware of the technology. Or am I wrong? Finally, here is a good explanation for non-technical people: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=864627 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=864627