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How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers
- phn 11y agoHonest question, is this much different than say, 10 years ago? Other than that the page seems like an interesting resource.
- pcwalton 11y agoThere's a big difference now in that a hardware-accelerated compositor is used. It's mostly accurate up to compositing. There are other little things that have happened recently and are worth noting—for example, Blink and WebKit are moving in a more Firefox-like direction for display list construction. Servo, of course, has a radically different architecture.
- dang 11y agoMany previous submissions, including one with significant attention in the last year (the criterion for duplicates): https://hn.algolia.com/?query=how%20browsers%20work&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=how%20browsers%20work&sort=byP...