How does the browser take the rules in this stylesheet and apply it to the HTML? Typically this is done in a streaming fashion. The browser reads the HTML tags as a stream, and applies what rules it can to the elements it has seen so far. (Obviously this is a simplification.) An interesting related … Read more
Attributes: Your mesh has a number of data streams. For each stream you can keep the following info: (name, type, data). Upon linking, you can query the GLSL program for active attributes and form an attribute dictionary for this program. Each element here is just (name, type). When you draw a mesh with a specified … Read more
The first thing that comes to mind here is: how clever is the rendering engine you’re using? That, generic as it sounds, matters a lot when questioning the efficiency of CSS rendering/selection. For instance, suppose the first rule in your CSS file is: .class1 { /*make elements with “class1” look fancy*/ } So when a … Read more
Update: So apparently, WebKit is a HTML/CSS web browser rendering engine for Safari/Chrome. Are there such engines for IE/Opera/Firefox and what are the differences, pros and cons of using one over the other? Can I use WebKit features in Firefox for example? Every browser is backed by a rendering engine to draw the HTML/CSS web … Read more