Web Standards: From Idea to Implementation
Blink28610 Elo 2025

Web Standards: From Idea to Implementation

The provided text outlines the comprehensive process of web standards development for HTML and CSS, particularly for engineers on the Blink team. It details the roles of key organizations like WHATWG (for living HTML/DOM standards) and W3C (for CSS and other APIs, via working groups like CSSWG), emphasizing consensus-building and cross-vendor collaboration. The lifecycle of a web feature is explained, from identifying a problem and drafting an explainer to incubation in groups like WICG, prototyping, formal specification writing, horizontal reviews (TAG, security, accessibility), and ultimately shipping and maintaining the feature with a focus on interoperability through Web Platform Tests (WPT). The document also provides guidance for engineers on how to onboard into standards work and grow into a leadership role.

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blink::PaintChunk and blink::DisplayItemList

blink::PaintChunk and blink::DisplayItemList

grouping and content. PaintChunk: groups sequential display items that share the same property‑tree state and cull/visibility; it’s the unit we layerize and invalidate.DisplayItemList: the recorded Sk...

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blink::PaintArtifact

blink::PaintArtifact

the immutable “what to draw” package for this frame. A PaintArtifact is the product of Blink painting: a DisplayItemList plus an ordered vector of PaintChunks. It is immutable post‑creation and design...

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blink::PaintController

blink::PaintController

builds the display list + paint chunks and manages caching. As painters call into GraphicsContext, they also drive a PaintController which groups drawing into display items and paint chunks (each keye...

10 Loka 202529min

blink::GraphicsContext

blink::GraphicsContext

immediate drawing API that records to a display list. Painters for layout objects use GraphicsContext to “draw”—but in modern Blink those calls get recorded into a display list (PaintRecord) backed by...

10 Loka 202544min

blink::TransformPaintPropertyNode / ClipPaintPropertyNode / EffectPaintPropertyNode / ScrollPaintPropertyNode

blink::TransformPaintPropertyNode / ClipPaintPropertyNode / EffectPaintPropertyNode / ScrollPaintPropertyNode

These are the nodes within those four trees. Every piece of painted content (a “paint chunk”) is associated with a tuple of (Transform, Clip, Effect, Scroll) nodes—its PropertyTreeState. This precisel...

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blink::PaintPropertyTreeBuilder

blink::PaintPropertyTreeBuilder

builds/updates paint property trees.Consumes the layout/fragment data and produces the four paint property trees (Transform, Clip, Effect, Scroll) for the current frame. These trees encode coordinate ...

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blink::PrePaintTreeWalk

blink::PrePaintTreeWalk

cross‑frame pre‑paint traversal. Runs in the InPrePaint lifecycle phase. Walks the entire layout tree starting at the root LocalFrameView, updating paint invalidation state and computing the context n...

10 Loka 202531min

blink::NGPhysicalFragment and friends

blink::NGPhysicalFragment and friends

Layout takes the styled DOM and produces a fragment tree of positioned boxes. In modern Blink this is LayoutNG; the core artifact is NGPhysicalFragment, which stores geometry and is used downstream fo...

10 Loka 202537min