My talk covers much of this, but I'll be sure to look back through the feedback from this thread and re-write it before I give it again in December.
Here are the slides from the talk I gave in Sydney (which was specifically directed at answering questions about WebKit which had come up for Maps and Wave folks). I will re-work the slides before I talk again this year. http://280slides.com/Viewer/?user=20394&name=WebKit%20Arch%2C%20Take%202&fullscreen -eric On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Nayan <naya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > General overview of the WebKit covering following components would be very > helpful. > 1. Loading phase (FrameLoader + DocumentLoader + MainResource Loader). > 2. Parsing phase (HTML, WML, SVG etc). > 3. Rendering phase (Layout, Painting). > 4. Java script module. > > For a beginner (like me), high level overview covering above component would > help in understanding WebKit a lot better. This would also give an > high-level idea of what all happens when user clicks on a link to fetch the > page. > > Thanks Jeremy for trying to organize more tech talks. > > Regards, > Nayan > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> wrote: >> >> I'll see what I can do... :-) >> >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Freddy Rose <freddybr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> +1 on WebKit painting. The rendering phase is very under-documented. >>> >>> It would be pretty sweet if you could get Simon Fraser or Dave Hyatt >>> would do a tech talk on the WebKit stuff. >>> >>> On Nov 11, 3:36 pm, Buakaw San <buakaw....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > Definitely interested in the painting/rendering process. The previous >>> > talk did not go into the WebKit/Skia painting details. I believe it >>> > simply had mentioned that the browser maintains a backingstore that it >>> > updates through SHM. It was more to show the browser/renderer painting >>> > interaction than to explain the WebKit painting phase. I expect this >>> > being at the heart of the rendering engine, many would be interested >>> > in this part. WebGL would be a very interesting topic as well. >>> > >>> > +1 for WebKit painting. >>> > >>> > On Nov 11, 2:24 pm, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> >>> > > wrote: >>> > > > I think there's some painting stuff touched on in the first round >>> > > > of talks, >>> > > > but nothing terribly in depth. Are there others that would be >>> > > > interested in >>> > > > this kind of talk? I'm a bit concerned that it wouldn't be very >>> > > > mainstream. >>> > > > If so, who might be good to give it? >>> > >>> > > Brett wrote that stuff. >>> > >>> > > Some of the guys working on WebGL and other 3D things might be able >>> > > to give >>> > > a talk about where the rendering pipeline is heading in the future. >>> > >>> > > PK >>> >>> -- >>> Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com >>> View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: >>> http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev >> >> -- >> Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com >> View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: >> http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev > > > -- > Regards, > _Nayan_ > > -- > Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
