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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: 0.257s | 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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quibono ◴[18 May 25 22:06 UTC] No.44024650[source]▶
Are you open to contributions? I would love if there was a non-chromium alternative to wkhtmltopdf!
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5- ◴[18 May 25 22:25 UTC] No.44024754[source]▶
like https://www.princexml.com/ ?
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1. edoceo ◴[18 May 25 22:49 UTC] No.44024888[source]▶
Yea, Prince is awesome. Not FOSS tho. I make some GPL or MIT licensed software and wish there was something as good a Prince with more open license.