Re:Microbrowsers Are Everywhere
by acdha on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:08PM
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They cover this in the article, carefully describe a “microbrowser” as a subset of agents which are closer to full browsers:
“Microbrowsers are a class of User-Agents that also visit website links, parse HTML and generate a user experience. But unlike those traditional browsers, the HTML parsing is limited and the rendering engine is singularly focused.”
This seems like a reasonable distinction, especially since many people are used to thinking of “browser” as something which does a lot of work (parsing, JavaScript execution, etc.) which aren't implemented in this class of agent.
“Microbrowsers are a class of User-Agents that also visit website links, parse HTML and generate a user experience. But unlike those traditional browsers, the HTML parsing is limited and the rendering engine is singularly focused.”
This seems like a reasonable distinction, especially since many people are used to thinking of “browser” as something which does a lot of work (parsing, JavaScript execution, etc.) which aren't implemented in this class of agent.