Questions tagged [rendering-engine]
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What is WebKit and how is it related to CSS?
More recently, I have been seeing questions with the tag "webkit". Such questions usually tend to be web-based questions relating to CSS, jQuery, layouts, cross-browers compatibility issues, etc...
So what is this "webkit" and how does it relate to…
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Which CSS selectors or rules can significantly affect front-end layout / rendering performance in the real world?
Is it worth worrying about CSS rendering performance? Or should we just not worry about efficiency at all with CSS and just focus on writing elegant or maintainable CSS instead?
This question is intended to be a useful resource for front-end…
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Vertex shader attribute mapping in GLSL
I'm coding a small rendering engine with GLSL shaders:
Each Mesh (well, submesh) has a number of vertex streams (eg. position,normal,texture,tangent,etc) into one big VBO and a MaterialID.
Each Material has a set of textures and properties (eg.…
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How is CSS applied by the browser, and are repaints affected by it?
Let's say we have an HTML page with a single stylesheet . How does the browser take the rules in this stylesheet and apply it to the HTML? I'm not asking about how to make it faster, I want to know how the rendering itself is handled.
Does it…
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What is the best HTML Rendering Engine to embed in an application?
At the moment, our application uses the Trident Win32 component, but we want to move away from that for a few reasons, chief among them being our desire to go cross-platform.
We're looking at WebKit and Gecko, but I'd love to get some feedback…
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Do you know a good android rendering engine?
What is a rendering engine? Is there any for Android?
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How to detect browser rendering engine in javascript?
I read a book calls 'Professional Javascript For Web Developers 2nd edition' and it state that this code can detect browser rendering engine: