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::* Parsing HTML is more difficult than XML because of its 'soft' syntax | ::* Parsing HTML is more difficult than XML because of its 'soft' syntax | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:30, 19 October 2012
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the parts of a browser
- UI
- search bar etc
- BROWSER ENGINE
- links UI to rendering engine
- RENDERING ENGINE
- Renders content by parsing HTML, constructing DOM tree and adding CSS to 'paint' each element in correct position
- Firefox's rendering engine is 'Gecko'; Chrome & Safari use Webkit, another open source rendering engine.
- Rendering engines try to speed up final display by painting initial content before all has rendered.
- Parsing HTML is more difficult than XML because of its 'soft' syntax
- Networking
- Gets the data with HTTP requests etc
- Data Persistence
- Stores cookies