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by jcelerier 1744 days ago
> Any app can embed a JavaScript engine or web renderer and cache code from the web, even on iOS

and we would call that a browser
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zepto 1744 days ago
No, we don’t call any app that embeds a web renderer or uses a JavaScript engine ‘a browser’.

Do you have any idea how many apps do this?

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jcelerier 1744 days ago
I mean yeah, e.g. a lot of recent games use html/js engines for their UI and everyone I know says that the game's UI is a browser
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zepto 1743 days ago
Yeah, but none of them say the game is a browser.
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