This article is found when I clear my Evernote in the afternoon, it’s a fantastic story to get known the flow of how browser render a page, it’s also very help to understand font-side developing in some view. Share this article to blog, hope to find some time to translate it to Chinese.
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The browser’s main functionality
The browser main functionality is to present the web resource you choose, by requesting it from the server and displaying it on the browser window. The resource is usually an HTML document, but may also be a PDF, image, or other type. The location of the resource is specified by the user using a URI (Uniform resource Identifier).
The way the browser interprets and displays HTML files is specified in the HTML and CSS specifications. These specifications are maintained by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) organization, which is the standards organization for the web.
For years browsers conformed to only a part of the specifications and developed their own extensions. That caused serious compatibility issues for web authors. Today most of the browsers more or less conform to the specifications. (更多…)