Panchekha, Pavel
Web Browser Engineering
- ISBN 13:
- 9780198913863
- author:
- Panchekha, Pavel
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 528
- Dimensions:
- 23.5 x 16 x 2.5 centimetres (0.8
- Genre:
- Computers, Programming, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Understanding the platform your code runs on is crucial for software engineers, and web browsers are the most widely-used platform out there. This book provides a detailed description of how web browsers work and how that impacts web developers and other software engineers.
By working through the book, you'll join the authors in building your own web browser, including rich visual effects, multithreaded architecture, JavaScript APIs, and comprehensive security policies. Web browser engines present unique challenges, interesting algorithms, and clever optimizations, making building a browser both easy and incredibly hard.
This interactive and engaging book is a unique source for software engineers, computer scientists, web developers, and anyone interested in web browsers and how they work. It's available as a free PDF download from Oxford Academic and selected open access locations, making it an accessible resource for anyone looking to learn more.