That's a bit like saying we live in outer space because earth is in outer space.

no, this does not make sense. The "outer" in outer space suggests an inner space. In this case earth because we have historically held a earth centrist view since humans primarily live on earth. The case that earth is inside of outer space is assumed.

Also I believe the original comment is right as your browser (HTTP) operates fundamentally on a request reply basis. You request resources, you receive an answer, while you are displaying the most recent answer the state on the server might change. You can have a browser that caches the resources for you and only retrieve the new state after for example a timeout or for example a archiving proxy.

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pixelpoet 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, and being a web browser that accesses websites from the internet doesn't make sense to call "local first"; the internet isn't local.

	▲	trashb 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I can browse my private my-site.html perfectly without ever having a network adapter in my device. Now granted some modern webapps (chatgpt) are not designed to operate locally, but there are plenty of webapps that work fine from local storage. A browser is (in my definition) a tool to display what you call a websites, usually a collection of html/css/js resources. One of the options is to retrieve the resources through the network, if you want the latest news for instance. But it is not required and that makes it local-first in my view. I don't think local first means the app can not connect or sync with a remote server. In the same way as saying we live on earth doesn't mean we are not in space, earth is in space and we are on earth. It is not mutually exclusive.