{"product_id":"web-browser-engineering-9780198913863","title":"Web Browser Engineering","description":"This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA working or budding software engineer always benefits from deeply understanding the platform their code runs on, and web browsers are the most common and widely-used platform there is. This book is the essential description of how they work and how that impacts web developers and other software engineers whose work touches the web. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReaders of?Web Browser Engineering?will join the authors in building their own web browser, including rich visual effects, multithreaded architecture, JavaScript APIs, and comprehensive security policies. Web browser engines are filled with unique challenges, interesting algorithms, and clever optimizations. Building a browser is both easy and incredibly hard, both intentional and accidental, and everywhere you look, you see the evolution and history of the web wrapped up in one codebase. It's both fun, and endlessly interesting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis interactive and engaging book will be a unique source for any software engineer, computer scientist, web developer, or simply anyone with an interest in web browsers and how they work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePavel Panchekha, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor, University of Utah\u003c\/em\u003e, Chris Harrelson, \u003cem\u003eChrome, Principal Software Engineer\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePavel Panchekha is a Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. His research focuses on web page layout and web browsers more generally. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2019. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChris Harrelson is a Principal Software Engineer at Google, where he leads the Blink Rendering team. Previously, he was a lead engineer for Google Maps, including founding Google Transit. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2004.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911018778898,"sku":"9780198913863","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_08c421cd-3265-4408-ab43-e91bfa03669f.jpg?v=1738725003","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/web-browser-engineering-9780198913863","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}