The Browser is an HTTP Client. It understands HTTP. It understands how to talk to the other guy, the Server, in the Client-Server protocol implementation. It forms the request chain in the request-response model.
The Browser also knows what it has to do when it sees an HTML document. Render it on the screen!
Follow it with a CSS file to layout your UI, the browser knows to paint and deliver beauty and your creative to the user.
It also knows what to do when you put in JavaScript in your page. It can go ahead and execute it. It can allow your page to be more dynamic to the user.
Many more resources such as images, xml, atom, rss, pdfs can be handled by the modern browser.
Such a powerful software, because of it's usage alone, drives us engineers to understand it better.
The following list is a "true" list of wonderful resources, sorted chronologically, based on appearance/publication, to understand how the browser operates internally.
Architecture and Evolution of the modern web browser : A must have resource in your reference-belt.
How Browsers work - Part 1 Architecture
How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers : This is the most comprehensive article to understand the browser internals.
Round up of Web Browser Internals Resources : All resources (articles, videos) repo. on html5rocks.com
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