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Re:Syntax Highlighting in a Webpage Without JavaScript by apatheticonion on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:03AM (#26577863)
The browser is just a generalised client implementation where the application is streamed and sandboxed. It's similar to a native app written on Kotlin/Swift or desktop application written in C#/wpf.

The same logic could be applied to those client application technologies, too.

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Re:Syntax Highlighting in a Webpage Without JavaScript by anoncake on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:50AM (#26578576)
No. The browser is a document viewer, and that's what it's actually good at.
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Re:Syntax Highlighting in a Webpage Without JavaScript by phowat on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:07AM (#26578717)
The browser started as a document viewer. Nowadays it is much more than that.
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Re:Syntax Highlighting in a Webpage Without JavaScript by anoncake on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:44AM (#26579017)
It is not just a crappy "generalized client application".
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