General implementation and design notes

This (misnamed) page collects important research and accumulated knowledge about browser implementation, parallel layout, etc.

• How Browsers Work - basic explanation of the common design of modern web browsers by long-time Gecko engineer Ehsan Akhgari
• More how browsers work article that is dated, but has many more details
• Webkit overview
• Fast and parallel web page layout (2010) - Leo Meyerovich's influential parallel selectors, layout, and fonts. It advocates seperating parallel selectors from parallel cascade to improve memory usage. See also the 2013 paper for automating layout and the 2009 paper that touches on speculative lexing/parsing.
• Servo layout on mozilla wiki
• Robert O'Callahan's mega-presentation - Lots of information about browsers
• ZOOMM paper - Qualcomm's network prefetching and combined selectors/cascade
• Strings in Blink
• Incoherencies in Web Access Control Policies - Analysis of the prevelance of document.domain, cross-origin iframes and other wierdness
• A Case for Parallelizing Web Pages -- Sam King's server proxy for partitioning webpages. See also his process-isolation work that reports parallelism benefits.
• High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Browsing on Big/Little Systems Save power by dynamically switching which core to use based on automatic workload heuristic
• C3: An Experimental, Extensible, Reconfigurable Platform for HTML-based Applications Browser prototype written in C# at Microsoft Research that provided a concurrent (though not successfully parallelized) architecture
• CSS Inline vertical alignment and line wrapping around floats - dbaron imparts wisdom about floats
• Quark - Formally verified browser kernel
• HPar: A Practical Parallel Parser for HTML
• Gecko HTML parser threading