Re: [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern browser?

[C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>]

>I hope the services I want to use (will) have a non-browser API (eg Twitter).

although it uses http, twitter has got an api that you can use outside
a browser. it's much the same with several others, including aws.
there are reasonably clear descriptions of the messages, and you can construct
and send them however you like, in which ever language you like.

in fact, since a browser must ultimately send messages, it's not clear
what a `browser API' would look like. the closest is probably something
that's expressed only in terms of javascript invoking some secret code
hidden in a binary module running within the browser, making it hard
to work out easily what the messages are (if they're binary) or how they
are formed (whether binary or text).

on the internet, no one can hear you scream when someone yet again
invents `the browser as operating system'.