Flow browser passes the Acid tests

Re:Flow browser passes the Acid tests by legulere on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:39AM (#23509680)

Servo also uses multicore rendering. It would be interesting how flow solved concurrency issues. As far as I know all UI engines and web engines work single core as concurrency bugs are almost inevitable in that area without special language support like from rust.

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Re:Flow browser passes the Acid tests by londons_explore on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:59AM (#23509850)

Current engines also do multicore rendering. Theres a single thread that decides what goes where on the page, but the actual rendering (ie. putting text and images into gpu buffers) is done by a thread pool.

Thats why on iOS safari if you scroll fast enough you see a checkerboard pattern... that means that tile isn't yet rendered...

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Re:Flow browser passes the Acid tests by saagarjha on Saturday June 13, 2020 @12:48PM (#23510719)

Safari got rid of that long ago. That would play fairly poorly with iOS 13's ability to drag the scrollbar around :)

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Re:Flow browser passes the Acid tests by esprehn on Saturday June 13, 2020 @01:14PM (#23510932)

All browsers still "checkerboard" including Safari. No browser that I'm aware of shows an actual checkerboard pattern anymore though, they paint white (or the layer background color).

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