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Nice! I'm glad to see more people are interested in creating browser from scratch. Tho like the "OS from scratch" trend, most of those browsers won't be as near

Nice! I'm glad to see more people are interested in creating browser from scratch. Tho like the "OS from scratch" trend, most of those browsers won't be as nearly as performant or complete as those market-leading browsers without ton of work put into it. Making a browser is not a one man job. But it's certainly fun to make a browser! I happen to keep track of the open-source browser projects & resources here if anyone is interested: https://github.com/ZeroX-DG/awesome-browser https://github.com/ZeroX-DG/awesome-browser

jchw 4y ago
Wow, I didn't realize so many people were interested in this. I've been wanting to make a hobby browser for a couple of years now but haven't gotten past some basic steps, but seeing this really does make me want to go deeper. If only I had more time. At least I will enjoy checking out other projects in the meantime.
- ZeroX-DG 4y ago
  Yeah I think you should definitely go for it. I was hesitated for a long time as well but decided to just throw myself into it & use it as a learning experience. After about two years, I got myself a very basic browser & ton of useful knowledge about browsers & their quirks. It wasn't an easy journey but I really enjoy it.
userbinator 4y ago
If you don't care about JS and just want a good hypertext document viewer with decent HTML and CSS support, I think it shouldn't be too hard to beat mainstream browsers on performance.
- ZeroX-DG 4y ago
  yeah that's true. A hypertext document viewer with decent HTML & CSS support is basically a stripped-off browser so it will almost always have a better performance.
calvinmorrison 4y ago
you should add dillo
nicoburns 4y ago
Huh, interesting that you implemented flow (block/inline) layout but not Flexbox or CSS Grid. I've been working on a library has the opposite! (it support Flexbox and CSS Grid, but not flow layout). Here if you're interested: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy I'll definitely take a look at your browser when I get some time.
- ZeroX-DG 4y ago
  Woah, that's so cool. Maybe I'll use your library for flexbox support in my browser! I implemented the flow layout first mainly because I didn't know how difficult it would be to support flexbox. The flow layout just seems like an easy entry point back then.

jchw 4y ago

Wow, I didn't realize so many people were interested in this. I've been wanting to make a hobby browser for a couple of years now but haven't gotten past some basic steps, but seeing this really does make me want to go deeper. If only I had more time. At least I will enjoy checking out other projects in the meantime.

ZeroX-DG 4y ago
Yeah I think you should definitely go for it. I was hesitated for a long time as well but decided to just throw myself into it & use it as a learning experience. After about two years, I got myself a very basic browser & ton of useful knowledge about browsers & their quirks. It wasn't an easy journey but I really enjoy it.

userbinator 4y ago

If you don't care about JS and just want a good hypertext document viewer with decent HTML and CSS support, I think it shouldn't be too hard to beat mainstream browsers on performance.

ZeroX-DG 4y ago
yeah that's true. A hypertext document viewer with decent HTML & CSS support is basically a stripped-off browser so it will almost always have a better performance.

calvinmorrison 4y ago

you should add dillo

nicoburns 4y ago

Huh, interesting that you implemented flow (block/inline) layout but not Flexbox or CSS Grid. I've been working on a library has the opposite! (it support Flexbox and CSS Grid, but not flow layout). Here if you're interested: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy I'll definitely take a look at your browser when I get some time.

ZeroX-DG 4y ago
Woah, that's so cool. Maybe I'll use your library for flexbox support in my browser! I implemented the flow layout first mainly because I didn't know how difficult it would be to support flexbox. The flow layout just seems like an easy entry point back then.