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title: "Browser Content Loading Approaches"
tags: ["work", "ddg-browser", "webkit", "architecture"]
updated: "2026-06-03"
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# Browser Content Loading Approaches

Design options for WebKit content loading:

- Load sync
- Load async with nav delegate waiting + extra progress boilerplate
- Load from another process
- Reimplement WebKit rules compiler
- Mixed: staged limited in time sync loading showing async loading if taking >6s
- Mixed: sync loading with async

Additional considerations:
- +Cache compiled rules
- +cleanup when outdated