Start Here: Background Reading
- Multi-process Architecture: Describes the high-level architecture of Chromium
Note: Most of the rest of the design documents assume familiarity with the concepts explained in this document.
- How Blink works is a high-level overview of Blink architecture.
- The "Life of a Pixel" talk (slides / video) is an introduction to Chromium's rendering pipeline, tracing the steps from web content to displayed pixels.
- [somewhat outdated] How Chromium Displays Web Pages: Bottom-to-top overview of how WebKit is embedded in Chromium
See Also: General Architecture
Also see the documentation for V8, which is the JavaScript engine used within Chromium. UI Framework
InputRenderingBuildingSee also the documentation for GYP, which is the build script generation tool.TestingFeature-Specific
OS-Specific- Android
- Chrome OS
- Mac OS X
- iOS
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