permacomputing

commit 1914fe98960d7a2ea8780c2788deef04faeefe03
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Author: Ville-Matias Heikkila <viznut@low.fi>
Date:   Fri Aug 19 19:51:39 +0300

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+A **web browser** is a client program for accessing the [[World Wide Web|WWW]].
+Its main feature is the loading of HTML pages over HTTP(S) connections and
+rendering them. There are moderate-sized web browsers as well as huge and
+bloated ones.
+
+Today, many WWW sites are entire applications that depend on complex
+client-side programmability with [[Javascript]] or [[WebAssembly]]. This
+makes the modern web browser the most common application software platform.
+Supporting it may therefore be useful, even though exclusively supporting
+such an unreliable target is not that wise from the permacomputing point of
+view.
+
+Programs written in [[C]], [[C++]] and some other languages can be compiled
+into web browser applications with LLVM-based compilers such as Emscripten
+and [[Zig]]. This makes it possible to minimize web-specific code and to use
+the same source code for native applications.+
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