Posted by: Mat | May 27, 2008

Reflows

Asked frequently about how pages get rendered in a browser, and invariably stumped for an easy response(and never seeming to find one), here’s one pretty interesting way to look at it…

In his blog, DougT explains the concept of reflow which Mozilla defines as the process by which the geometry of the layout engine’s formatting objects are computed.  In any case, a couple of good examples cropped up on the net including this one below.  Check out this post for a couple more.


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