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

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233 points monax | 4 comments | 18 May 25 17:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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mherrmann ◴[19 May 25 06:50 UTC] No.44027081[source]▶
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1. SCLeo ◴[19 May 25 07:00 UTC] No.44027143[source]▶
This comment might be one of the meanest comment I have ever seen.
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2. mherrmann ◴[19 May 25 07:21 UTC] No.44027247[source]▶
Hm, I'm sorry you feel that way. It's not meant to be mean. On the contrary; Instead of encouraging someone who I feel is going down a wrong path, to me it's kinder to express my view that they aren't. I have personally wasted years of my life on technical projects, and would have been better off if someone had told me that it was a bad idea.
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3. sjogress ◴[19 May 25 07:35 UTC] No.44027344[source]▶
I'm of the opinion that these passion projects are incredibly important.

Your passions projects were problably also far more important to your growth than you give them credit for.

Scratching an itch is how we, as programmers/engineers/whatever, grow. It is also how we stumble into solving real problems and make our mark on the world.

Who knows, this could become the next big player in the browsersphere, or maybe it'll pivot into something else, or perhaps it will spark someones imagination. At the very least it has (probably) already been a source of creative bliss and pride for the ones involved, which in my opinion makes it worthwhile.

4. devgoncalo ◴[19 May 25 07:37 UTC] No.44027362[source]▶
I agree