Parts of a browser

Network connections

• HTTP
• WebSockets
• WebRTC

Browser Engine

aka layout engine, rendering engine

HTML -> visual web page

Examples

• Blink
  • Chrome
• Gecko
  • Firefox
• WebKit
  • Safari

JS Engine

• V8 Engine
  • Chrome
• JavaScriptCore
  • WebKit
• SpiderMonkey
  • Firefox
• Rhino
  • JS Engine written in Java

Understand files

• PDFs
• images
• audio
• video
• File system

Interactive

• drag and dropping
• hovering
• clicking
• highlighting

TLS encryption

So many APIs 🤯

Caching

Requirements

• the only other kind of program that does this much is AAA games

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Last update: 2023-04-24