{"id":2662,"date":"2012-05-04T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T22:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2012-05-04T14:54:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T22:54:05","slug":"how-browser-engines-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/2012\/05\/04\/how-browser-engines-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How browser engines work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, the former Flux team had an offsite where we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/morgamic\/sets\/72157629121855200\/\">played with lasers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I also gave a talk on browsers internals. This is just an introduction but it should give web developers a better understanding of this black box that we work with everyday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" name=\"vidly-frame\" src=\"http:\/\/s.vid.ly\/embeded.html?link=7b3k2q&#038;autoplay=false\"><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/vid.ly\/7b3k2q'><img src='http:\/\/cf.cdn.vid.ly\/7b3k2q\/poster.jpg' \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/haricot\/how-browser-engines-work\/\">Slides are also available<\/a>. Since I&#8217;m not smart enough to hack on browsers, I heavily rely on other people&#8217;s writings to document myself. Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogmarks.net\/user\/rik\/marks\/tag\/navigateur-marche\">those resources<\/a> to get into the details.<\/p>\n<p>If you speak French, you can watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paris-web.fr\/2011\/conferences\/un-navigateur-comment-ca-marche.php\">original version of the talk<\/a> that I gave at <a href=\"http:\/\/paris-web.fr\/\">Paris-Web<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, the former Flux team had an offsite where we played with lasers. But I also gave a talk on browsers internals. 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