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Layout Engine Internals Video

David Baron spoke last week at the Google Tech Talks.  It is a great talk if you want to understand a how browser work. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2_6bGNZ7bA]
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What is a reflow?

Reflow is the process by which the geometry of the layout engine’s formatting objects are computed.  Last week, I was searching around and stumbled on these really cool visuals of what a reflow looks like.  If you’re a visual person, you will dig these: Reflow of Mozilla.org: [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=1020647662203348823] Reflow of Google.co.jp: [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-1471976166301235697] Reflow of Wikipedia: [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-5863446593724321515] If you produced [...]
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