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by glitch003 3048 days ago
By "crypto functionality" the author means talking to a blockchain, not doing cryptographic operations. Metamask, the example given, is a browser extension that provides access to the Ethereum blockchain by injecting a JS object into the web page. It provides a wallet and transaction signing and broadcasting. Web crypto API's are quite different.
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Both are possible, if you read through more.