Evidently yes, the browser does most of that work nowadays - I just thought, theoretically, whether some of that work could be shifted to the "build phase" - sort of a precompilation ...
Especially since all of these resources (html, css) are essentially plain text - then internally the browser builds an optimized 'binary' version - so I thought if that "optimized" version could somehow be pre-generated and downloaded ...
A bit similar to what they're doing with Javascript and Web Assembly ... OTOH if building that 'render tree' depends on a lot of dynamic variables which are not known in advance then this would of course not be practically feasible :-)
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Evidently yes, the browser does most of that work nowadays - I just thought, theoretically, whether some of that work could be shifted to the "build phase" - sort of a precompilation ...
Especially since all of these resources (html, css) are essentially plain text - then internally the browser builds an optimized 'binary' version - so I thought if that "optimized" version could somehow be pre-generated and downloaded ...
A bit similar to what they're doing with Javascript and Web Assembly ... OTOH if building that 'render tree' depends on a lot of dynamic variables which are not known in advance then this would of course not be practically feasible :-)