[apatheticonion]

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.

[anoncake]

No. The browser is a document viewer, and that's what it's actually good at.

[phowat]

The browser started as a document viewer. Nowadays it is much more than that.

[anoncake]

It is not just a crappy "generalized client application".