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The Novel Engines: Servo (Web Ecosystem Health Part X)

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CSS3 Layout Engine

There's no support for CSS grid, but it is ragged. There are other efforts from a lot of basically volunteer contributors to implement other parts of CSS3 as well. The layout engine essentially takes these DOM nodes plus style and turns them into a tree of what are called render objects or layout objects. And once you have all those nodes in the layout tree, then you can pass that to the next phase, which is the rendering phase.

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