Overview of Browser Main Components
A modern web browser consists of several key components that work together to display web pages:
- User Interface: The address bar, back/forward buttons, bookmark menu, etc. (everything except the main window where the page is displayed).
- Browser Engine: The interface used to query and manipulate the rendering engine.
- Rendering Engine: Responsible for displaying requested content. For HTML, it parses HTML and CSS and renders the result.
- Networking: Handles network calls (e.g., HTTP requests) via platform-independent interfaces.
- UI Backend: Used to draw basic components like combo boxes and dialogs using the operating system's user interface.
- JS Interpreter: Interprets and executes JavaScript code.
- Data Storage: The persistence layer for saving data such as Cookies to the hard drive.