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When setting `font-family: monospace;` in CSS, we have to interpret the keyword font sizes (small, medium, large, etc) as slightly smaller for historical reasons. Normally the medium font size is 16px, but for monospace it's 13px. The way this needs to behave is extremely strange: When encountering `font-family: monospace`, we have to go back and replay the CSS cascade as if the medium font size had been 13px all along. Otherwise relative values like 2em/200%/etc could have gotten lost in the inheritance chain. We implement this in a fairly naive way by explicitly checking for `font-family: monospace` (note: it has to be *exactly* like that, it can't be `font-family: monospace, Courier` or similar.) When encountered, we simply walk the element ancestors and re-run the cascade for the font-size property. This is clumsy and inefficient, but it does work for the common cases. Other browsers do more elaborate things that we should eventually care about as well, such as user-configurable font settings, per-language behavior, etc. For now, this is just something that allows us to handle more WPT tests where things fall apart due to unexpected font sizes. To learn more about the wonders of font-size, see this blog post: https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/08/10/font-size-an-unexpectedly-complex-css-property/
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.