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Animation of a (Mozilla) Browser Reflowing a Webpage

Thanks to Grant Gochnauer for sending in a sweet link with some awesome animations by Satoshi Ueyama that show how the Gecko web page rendering engine (used in Mozilla/Firefox) reflows a webpage and essentially renders it on the fly as the HTML streams down the engine positions it and makes heads or tails of it. Here’s [...]

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