How does a web browser work?

[AmigaEd]

Hi,
I'm not much of a programmer and these are probably going to be some really dumb sounding questions, but here I go anyway...

How does a browser basically work?

I'm guessing that it must interpret html and scripts on the fly?

But how does it decide what gets done first? for example if images, html and scripts are contained on a web page which items are actions taken on first?

On an Amiga hows does data get sent back and forth between the  browser and the TCP/IP stack software?

Thank you in advance for your help,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

Thank you guy's for all of the information...

Some of this is actually starting to make sense to me. I did look at the Aweb source code (much of which was beyond my current understanding) but I definitely could start to get a feel for the complexity of the browser. I could also see that parsing could quickly become overwhelming with all of the possible languages, scripts, etc. that could be thrown at the browser.

I guess that I should have become interested in this kind of stuff back in 1994 or so.

Things seemed less complicated back then. :eek:

Regards,
AmigaEd