Web Browser Engineering

Pavel Panchekha, Chris Harrelson (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

528 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-891385-6 (ISBN)

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Web browsers are the most common and widely-used platform there is, and this book is the essential description of how they work and how that impacts web developers and other software engineers whose work touches the web.

A working or budding software engineer always benefits from deeply understanding the platform their code runs on, and web browsers are the most common and widely-used platform there is. This book is the essential description of how they work and how that impacts web developers and other software engineers whose work touches the web.

Readers of Web Browser Engineering will join the authors in building their own web browser, including rich visual effects, multithreaded architecture, JavaScript APIs, and comprehensive security policies. Web browser engines are filled with unique challenges, interesting algorithms, and clever optimizations. Building a browser is both easy and incredibly hard, both intentional and accidental, and everywhere you look, you see the evolution and history of the web wrapped up in one codebase. It's both fun, and endlessly interesting.

This interactive and engaging book will be a unique source for any software engineer, computer scientist, web developer, or simply anyone with an interest in web browsers and how they work.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Pavel Panchekha is a Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. His research focuses on web page layout and web browsers more generally. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2019. Chris Harrelson is a Principal Software Engineer at Google, where he leads the Blink Rendering team. Previously, he was a lead engineer for Google Maps, including founding Google Transit. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2004.

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part 1 Introduction
i: Browsers and the Web
ii: History of the Web
Part 2 Drawing Graphics
1: Downloading Web Pages
2: Drawing to the Screen
3: Formatting Text
Part 3 Viewing Documents
4: Constructing a Document Tree
5: Laying Out Pages
6: Applying Author Styles
7: Handling Buttons and Links
Part 4 Running Applications
8: Sending Information to Servers
9: Running Interactive Scripts
10: Keeping Data Private
Part 5 Modern Browsers
11: Adding Visual Effects
12: Scheduling Tasks and Threads
13: Animating and Compositing
14: Making Content Accessible
15: Supporting Embedded Content
16: Reusing Previous Computations
Part 6 Conclusion
A: What Wasn't Covered
B: A Changing Landscape
C: Glossary
D: More Resources
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.03.2025
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	998 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
ISBN-10	0-19-891385-0 / 0198913850
ISBN-13	978-0-19-891385-6 / 9780198913856
Zustand	Neuware