Rather than use the browsers layout engine, they created their own. It uses a css3d hack to promote everything to compositor layers, and then performs layout i

Rather than use the browsers layout engine, they created their own. It uses a css3d hack to promote everything to compositor layers, and then performs layout itself using css matrix transforms. It also has a physics engine, so you can do physics based interfaces. Here's an explanation of GPU compositor layers: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/gpu-accelerated-compositing-in-chrome http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/gpu-acce...