9THE WEB BROWSER
You probably don’t think of it this way, but the web browser you use every day is a virtual machine—an abstract computer with an incredibly complicated instruction set implemented entirely in software. In other words, it’s one of those interpreters you learned about in the last chapter.
In this chapter, you’ll learn about some of the functionality of this virtual machine. You’ll learn about the input language and how it’s interpreted by the browser. Browsers are extremely complicated beasties, however, so I can’t cover every feature.
One thing that makes browsers interesting to learn about is that, on one hand, they’re big, complex ...
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