The Web Platform

How the browser turns code into pixels, and the models engineers must reason about.

Part: 00 · Foundations · Priority: Critical

Taxonomy

Second-level groups and their articles. Each article is a standalone entry following the template; its filename is the kebab-case form of the title.

Browser Internals

• Process & Thread Architecture
• Sandboxing & Site Isolation
• The Main Thread

The Rendering Pipeline

• HTML Parsing & DOM Construction
• Style Calculation
• Layout & Reflow
• Paint & Layerization
• Compositing

Object Models

• The DOM as an Abstraction
• The CSSOM
• The Render Tree

The Event Loop

• Tasks & the Callback Queue
• Microtasks & the Job Queue
• Rendering & rAF Timing
• Long Tasks & Starvation

The Origin Model

• Origins & Sites
• URL Anatomy
• Document Lifecycle & bfcache

Index only. One canonical home per concept — overlapping ideas are owned here and cross-linked from other domains, never duplicated.