S2:E2 - How do browsers work? (Lin Clark)

You use the browser all the time, but how much do you really know about it? Lin Clark walks us through all the steps a browser takes to translate your html into pixels on the screen. She also makes these wonderful coding cartoons. She shares her techniques and her process, and how you can apply them to your next technical blog post.

Show Links

• Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor)
• Code Cartoons
• Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload
• Inside a super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS (aka Stylo)
• The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
• Code Cartoon Articles on Mozilla
• Base.cs Podcast
• Quincy's Codeland talk on technical blogging
• Quincy's Codeland talk podcast episode
• Web Performance episode with Lara Hogan
• What WebAssembly means for React (video)
• Codeland Conf
• Codeland 2019

Lin Clark

Lin makes coding cartoons, and works on the Emerging Technologies group at Mozilla.