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> Browsers are the new OS. No, no, that's incorrect ;)
by tannhaeuser 5y ago
> Browsers are the new OS.
No, no, that's incorrect ;)
- shadowgovt 5y agoIs it? I'm doing more work these days in a browser than in any other application environment. The browser loads arbitrary code from external storage and executes it. It provides a standardized abstraction onto the hardware layer (mouse, keyboard, screen, audio, and in my case head-tracking). One could argue that it's less operating system and more glorified UI toolkit, but I can't name a UI tool kit that also has to provide security sandboxing to prevent arbitrary code from misusing its hardware interfacing. Perhaps we could consider it a virtual machine running atop an operating system. On the other hand, I think Chromebooks suggest that you can build the host for that virtual machine very thin.