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We must reply to requests received from the client in the order they are received. The wrench in this requirement is handling requests that must be performed asynchronously, such as fetching the serialized DOM tree from the WebContent process. We currently handle this with a "block token". Async request handlers hold a token that blocks any subsequent responses from being sent. When that token is removed (i.e. the async request now has a response to be sent), the async response is then sent followed by the blocked responses in-order. This strategy had a limitation that we could not handle an actor trying to take 2 block tokens, meaning only one async request could be handled at a time. This has been fine so far, but an upcoming feature (style sheet sources) will break this limitation. The client will request N sources at a time, which would try to take N block tokens. The new strategy is to assign all requests an ID, and store a list of request IDs that are awaiting a response. When the server wants to send a reply, we match the ID of the replied-to message to this list of IDs. If it is not the first in this list, then we are blocked waiting for an earlier reply, and just store the response. When the earlier request(s) receive their response, we can then send out all blocked replies (up to the next request that has not yet received a response). |
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Ladybird
Ladybird is a truly independent web browser, using a novel engine based on web standards.
Important
Ladybird is in a pre-alpha state, and only suitable for use by developers
Features
We aim to build a complete, usable browser for the modern web.
Ladybird uses a multi-process architecture with a main UI process, several WebContent renderer processes, an ImageDecoder process, and a RequestServer process.
Image decoding and network connections are done out of process to be more robust against malicious content. Each tab has its own renderer process, which is sandboxed from the rest of the system.
At the moment, many core library support components are inherited from SerenityOS:
- LibWeb: Web rendering engine
- LibJS: JavaScript engine
- LibWasm: WebAssembly implementation
- LibCrypto/LibTLS: Cryptography primitives and Transport Layer Security
- LibHTTP: HTTP/1.1 client
- LibGfx: 2D Graphics Library, Image Decoding and Rendering
- LibUnicode: Unicode and locale support
- LibMedia: Audio and video playback
- LibCore: Event loop, OS abstraction layer
- LibIPC: Inter-process communication
How do I build and run this?
See build instructions for information on how to build Ladybird.
Ladybird runs on Linux, macOS, Windows (with WSL2), and many other *Nixes.
How do I read the documentation?
Code-related documentation can be found in the documentation folder.
Get in touch and participate!
Join our Discord server to participate in development discussion.
Please read Getting started contributing if you plan to contribute to Ladybird for the first time.
Before opening an issue, please see the issue policy and the detailed issue-reporting guidelines.
The full contribution guidelines can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md.
License
Ladybird is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.