Web Browser Engineering (2021)

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Post by MrVandemar » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 9:42 AM UTC

Web Browser Engineering (2021)
browser.engineering

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Post by keepamovin » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 10:00 AM UTC

hey, this book looks cool! well done :)

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Post by asicsp » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 11:00 AM UTC

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Post by bberrry » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 11:20 AM UTC

I'm so incredibly thankful that there are people like Pavel and Chris putting effort into articles like this. You are truly the best of us

Re: Web Browser Engineering (2021)

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Post by andai » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 11:21 AM UTC

The author's post explaining why Python was chosen: https://browserbook.substack.com/p/why-python

Apparently some of it now runs in the browser ("in the book itself") by compiling Python to JS?

https://browserbook.substack.com/p/compiling-python-to-js

Re: Web Browser Engineering (2021)

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Post by CrayKhoi » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 11:24 AM UTC

I've been levelling up on browser internals, and this book is awesome. It helps build up intuition on how browsers work, without going through the millions of lines of chrome code.

Re: Web Browser Engineering (2021)

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Post by mananaysiempre » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 11:48 AM UTC

CrayKhoi wrote: post #6

I've been levelling up on browser internals, and this book is awesome. It helps build up intuition on how browsers work, without going through the millions of lines of chrome code.

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Post by kaptainkarl » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 11:54 AM UTC

mananaysiempre wrote: post #7

CrayKhoi wrote: post #6

I've been levelling up on browser internals, and this book is awesome. It helps build up intuition on how browsers work, without going through the millions of lines of chrome code.

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As a native English speaker, yes that is kinda weird to be "incredibly irritated" by a sentence that's completely normal and well constructed.

Re: Web Browser Engineering (2021)

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Post by _benj » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 12:06 PM UTC

It is so exciting to see material like this being made!

Browsers seem like mysterious, undecipherable black boxes, which is very likely how G wants them to be perceived, but that is cracking by seeing the efforts/results of such projects like ladybird and others!

I hope to one day be able to jump in and contribute to break that moat! And this books looks like an amazing start!

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Post by mmkos » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 12:07 PM UTC

mananaysiempre wrote: post #7

CrayKhoi wrote: post #6

I've been levelling up on browser internals, and this book is awesome. It helps build up intuition on how browsers work, without going through the millions of lines of chrome code.

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With all due respect, this feels better suited as a journal entry rather than a comment on a HN thread.