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Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)

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233 points monax | 1 comments | 18 May 25 17:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

We’ve been working on Vaev, a minimal web browser engine built from scratch. It supports HTML/XHTML, the CSS cascade, @page rules for pagination, and print-to-PDF rendering. It even handles calc(), var(), and percentage units—and yes, it renders Google.com (mostly).

This is an experimental project focused on learning and exploration. Networking is basic (http:// and file:// only), and grid layouts aren’t supported yet, but we’re making progress fast.

We’d love your thoughts and feedback.

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abhisek ◴[18 May 25 18:44 UTC] No.44023465[source]▶
What’s the long term goal of this project beyond learning? Building a browser to support the modern web is a humongous work IMHO.
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monax ◴[18 May 25 18:51 UTC] No.44023507[source]▶
The main goal is great support for static documents rendering as it's being used at the core of the paper-muncher [1] PDF rendering engine, meant to replace wkhtmltopdf at odoo. But we don't exclude general web browsing and JavaScript support at some point.

[1] https://github.com/odoo/paper-muncher

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1. Teever ◴[18 May 25 22:41 UTC] No.44024835[source]▶
So cool to see Odoo mentioned on HN. I've worked with it before and like it a lot.

I've made posts about it on HN before but they've never gained traction. I hope that this takes off.

You guys make neat software.