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? 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. And if you don't like the way people normally browse a site like wikipedia or tvtropes, then... well, you've missed the point of hypertext, and what you're building isn't a web browser.
