On 24/05/2013, random...@fastmail.us <random...@fastmail.us> wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013, at 16:02, Strake wrote: >> Yes. A web browser ought to have a component to fetch documents and >> start the appropriate viewer, as in mailcap. The whole monolithic web >> browser model is flawed. > > And you spend a day on wikipedia or tvtropes and you've got two hundred > HTML viewers open?
Yes. > You need _something_ monolithic to manage a linear (or, rather, > branching only when you choose to, via open new window or new tab) > browsing history, even if content viewers aren't part of it. When you > click a link within "the appropriate viewer", it needs to be _replaced_ > with the viewer for the content at the link you clicked on. The viewer sends a "go" message back to the fetcher, which kills the old viewer and loads the new one, and can keep a URL log.
