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  • What's the Speedometer 3.1 [0] rating for that browser paired with an M5?

    [0]: https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/

    by 5555watch
  • Not a Show HN:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

    by TekMol
  • Your own engine?! Wow, that's incredible. Is this gonna be like Servo where people can build a browser around this, or will it be a standalone browser?

    I recently switched from Arc to Helium but it's still Chrome with different paint. When I was using Opera 12, it was the most standards-compliant browser so it became my main. What are the goals for cwbrowser (and is the name permanent)?

    by NetOpWibby
  • Congrats! Even if this is vibecoded, this is a hard task to get just a barebones renderer working.

    I do concur with the few other folks here that the ShowHN is meant for actually showcasing something rather than the landing page with a screenshot. I would expect it to link to a downloadable binary or the source.

    Showcasing Web Platform Tests coverage would be better than just Acid 3.

    For anyone else wondering why this is hard: I'm writing a browser engine that renders to png. I dug into the source code of other browser engines and came across scenarios that I had never imagined. I learnt about font rasterization, execution contexts for scripts, etc. There's a tonne of stuff to be learnt by building something like this.

    Supporting iframes and each group of the web platform APIs, each add another layer of complexity that I definitely dont want to be tackling as a solo dev.

    by SingAlong
  • Faster than chrome and 100% clearance of acid3 is certainly interesting, and a great achievement for a solo dev, good job!

    I’d love to see something entirely FOSS dethrone the big corp browsers, hope that’s the goal here.

    by Kon5ole
  • Modern browsers should no longer score 100 on Acid 3 though.

    >By April 2017, the updated specifications had diverged from the test such that the latest versions of Google Chrome, Safari and Mozilla Firefox no longer pass the test as written

    by krackers
  • Acid3 is 100 tests but to have a browser that works on any real percentage of the internet you need to pass the over 52000 tests and nearly two million subtests [1] that make up the Web Platform Tests [2]

    This is like the difference between a college degree and passing a spelling test.

    1. https://servo.org/blog/2023/07/20/servo-web-platform-tests/ 2. https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt

    Not to mention this site is clearly vibe coded and has a vague call to action and no source code available thus indicating possible vaporware.

    by timhigins
  • If you're going to "Show HN" you should show something. This just a hastily-extruded [1] landing page with no details.

    Also, using an agentic framework and writing code by hand "a lot of the time" does not count as "from scratch".

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129191

    by anonymous_user9

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