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What is specifically a "browser engine"?

• Millennium 13y ago
  The definition is a little fluid. At the absolute minimum you'd need an HTML renderer and Internet access, but this wouldn't get you so far on the modern Web. Most people would expect some level of CSS and JavaScript support too.
• agumonkey 13y ago
  AFAIK Servo is mostly a DOM layout parallel renderer. I mistook it for a full browser but the dev corrected me saying it's "just" rendering engine. Right now they're using separate css lib, js interpreter, etc. Servo deals with the layout.
  • sanxiyn 13y ago
    There is a plan to replace the separate CSS library with its own.
    • agumonkey 13y ago
      Yeah they were saying it was probably causing performance issues, so the sooner the better.
      • lillycat 13y ago
        It is a (long, hard) work in progress. One dev started this huge task about 3 weeks ago :-)
        • agumonkey 13y ago
          I hope this didn't come across like an impatient rant. I just wish them a quick path toward advancing state of the art ideas about DOM rendering and parallelism.