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Reusing Previous Computations

Web Browser Engineering31 May 2023

Compositing (see Chapter 13) makes animations smoother, but it doesn’t help with interactions that affect layout, like text editing or DOM modifications.

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Applying Author Styles

Web Browser Engineering7 Jun 2021

In the previous chapter we gave each pre element a gray background. It looks OK, and it is good to have defaults, but sites want a say in how they look.

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History of the Web

Web Browser Engineering3 May 2021

This chapter dives into the history of the web itself: where it came from, and how the web and browsers have evolved to date.

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Laying Out Pages

Web Browser Engineering5 Apr 2021

So far, layout has been a linear process that handles open tags and close tags independently. But web pages are trees, and look like them: borders and backgrounds visually nest inside one another.

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Browsers and the Web

Web Browser Engineering6 Mar 2021

I—this is Chris speaking—have known the webBroadly defined, the web is the interlinked network (“web”) of web pages on the internet.

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Constructing an HTML Tree

Web Browser Engineeringby Handling Author Errors4 Feb 2021

So far, our browser sees web pages as a stream of open tags, close tags, and text. But HTML is actually a tree, and though the tree structure hasn’t been important yet, it will be central to later...

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Formatting Text

Web Browser Engineering11 Dec 2020

In the last chapter, our browser created a graphical window and drew a grid of characters to it. That’s OK for Chinese, but English text features characters of different widths grouped into words...

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Web Browser Engineering

Web Browser Engineeringby Pavel Panchekha; Chris Harrelson30 Aug 2020

Web browsers are ubiquitous, but how do they work? This book explains, building a basic but complete web browser, from networking to JavaScript, in a couple thousand lines of Python.

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Drawing to the Screen

Web Browser Engineering13 Aug 2020

A web browser doesn’t just download a web page; it also has to show that page to the user. In the twenty-first century, that means a graphical application.There are some obscure text-based...

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Downloading Web Pages

Web Browser Engineering24 Jul 2020

A web browser displays information identified by a URL. And the first step is to use that URL to connect to and download information from a server somewhere on the internet.

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Making Content Accessible

Web Browser Engineering15 Oct 2019

So far, we’ve focused on making the browser an effective platform for developing web applications. But ultimately, the browser is a user agent.

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Running Interactive Scripts

Web Browser Engineering10 Sept 2018

The first web applications were like the previous chapter’s guest book, with the server generating new web pages for every user action.

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