The Organization and Abstraction Layers of Chromium's Code

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Published on April 29, 2009 9:47:24 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiN9fxwjcL0

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-- Contents --
0:00 - Introduction
2:12 - WebKit Glue layer
5:03 - The Render process
5:38 - Renderer Host
6:40 - Tab Contents layer
7:00 - Browser Window
8:00 - Check Deps (dependencies)
9:14 - Q & A
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Chromium's multi-process architecture and tight integration with WebKit necessitate a heavily layered approach. In this talk, Brett Wilson introduces each of the layers and explains how they fit together. This video is a great complement to this page: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/displaying-a-web-page-in-chrome