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Web Browser Engineering (2021)

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770 points MrVandemar | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 09:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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jm4 ◴[15 Oct 24 12:11 UTC] No.41847720[source]▶
This looks awesome. About 15 years ago, I started working on a headless browser and maintained it for several years. It used SpiderMonkey as the js interpreter and had a custom DOM implementation. It ran all the modern js from the time, AJAX, etc. Later, I added a custom Flash runtime. It basically did everything but draw to the screen. That project was a lot of fun.

I'm definitely interested in going through this book.

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aitchnyu ◴[15 Oct 24 12:22 UTC] No.41847801[source]▶
Umm, if you wanted/want to draw to the screen, what library will you use?
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1. jm4 ◴[15 Oct 24 17:34 UTC] No.41850947[source]▶
I didn’t have a clue. That wasn’t part of my skillset. All we needed was a headless browser that was automated. It was crawling a few million pages a day. I had a debug console where I could see cached pages, headers, cookies, etc.