For the same reason your car isn't a daiquiri. An operating system is the framework in which application processes are executed in a controlled fashion.
Browsers are visual applications, which take data and render it in an interactive fashion. You can build devices without operatings systems -- they simply do one thing, and one thing only. Your TV remote is a good example. You can build a device with a screen and a HID where the one thing it does is "run a browser". You can add features to a browser to make it more like an OS. If you take this to its logical conclusion, you might call that a browser that is also an OS. But in reality, there will be two very distinct components which make it up, the OS part and the browser part. They are simply two distinct things, like your car's engine and its driver's seat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45492 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
