Chrome Interaction Systems: Scrolling, Animations, and Input
Blink28619 Sep 2025

Chrome Interaction Systems: Scrolling, Animations, and Input

The source material provides a detailed examination of Chrome’s architecture and how it manages user interactions like scrolling, animations, and input handling to ensure web pages feel smooth and responsive. It explains that the browser utilizes a multi-stage rendering pipeline and relies heavily on a separate compositor thread to perform dynamic updates in parallel with the main thread, thereby avoiding performance bottlenecks or "jank" caused CC by JavaScript or layout calculations. Specifically, the document discusses how scrolling and certain efficient animations (such as changes to transform and opacity) are handled off the main thread to maintain a high framerate. Furthermore, it covers input event coordination, emphasizing ntechniques like passive event listeners that allow the compositors to proceed with scrolling immediately without waiting for the main thread to check if a script will cancel the action.

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blink::PropertyTreeManager

blink::PropertyTreeManager

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blink::PaintArtifactCompositor

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blink::PaintChunk and blink::DisplayItemList

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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

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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

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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...

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blink::GraphicsContext

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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...

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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

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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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