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rendering

Parse, style, layout, paint, composite. Everything about the work a browser repeats between your change and the next frame.

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How a browser decides what to paint

Invalidation, not repainting. The interesting work is in deciding how little to redo.

chrisOctober 11, 20251 min read

Download, parse, match, shape, raster. The stage that surprises people is shaping, and it is the one you cannot skip.

chrisSeptember 17, 20251 min read

The last stage of the pipeline, running on its own thread, which is exactly why transform animations survive a busy main thread.

chrisSeptember 5, 20251 min read