[webkit-dev] DOM tree vs. Render tree

[Eric Seidel]

I'm not sure this will help you Song, but here is a talk I gave a
couple years back which talks some about the DOM vs. Rendering tree
separation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVnARGhhs9w

Best of luck in your exploration.

-eric

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2011, at 4:30 PM, song.7.liu at nokia.com wrote:
>
>> Thanks, but why not generate a tree according to document ang css style at the same time? Or why is the post style decision needed?
>
> I can see from your question that you didn’t understand, but I’m not sure how to clear things up.
>
> The DOM tree needs to match the document structure and can’t be influenced by style. This is what makes the DOM API work; the DOM tree is a parsed form of the document explicitly exposed as API. Style can change many ways at times when the DOM must not change, for example, when a stylesheet finishes loading, the styles from that sheet can affect how the DOM elements are displayed. We can’t change the DOM tree in response to style changes.
>
> I think we’ll have to get to a more specific question to have a useful discussion.
>
>    -- Darin
>
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