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So you want to build a browser engine
8 June 2024 So You Want To Build A Browser Engine If you’re building a browser engine from scratch just for fun, stop reading now and I wish you the best. If you want to build an engine that’s competitive with Chromium, and surpasses it in some respects, here’s my advice.
A key part of engine design is determining exactly what is in these sandboxed content processes and how they interface with the rest of the browser. The design of your JS engine and DOM and layout implementation will be partly driven by the need to keep RAM usage per content process to a minimum. Your compositor will need to support the full set of SVG and CSS filters, plus cropping, masking and other effects, across frame boundaries.
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