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

An experimental web browser engine

Features

Veav currently supports a subset of web standards, including:

• Most display types (excluding grid)
• Standard CSS cascade behavior
• Pagination using @page rules
• Print-to-PDF output
• All CSS units, including percentages, var(), and calc()
• Loading of HTML and XHTML documents
• Very basic networking, only http:// and file:// is supported

For detailed compatibility and feature tracking, see our WPT status page

Trying It Out

You can try out Veav by running the following command:

pacman -S base-devel git ninja sdl2 nasm gcc-multilib liburing clang libseccomp

# We need llvm 20 and arch doesn't have it yet
yay -S clang-prefixed-release

git clone https://github.com/skift-org/vaev.git

cd vaev

pip install git+https://github.com/cute-engineering/cutekit

python -m ck run --release vaev-browser -- file.html

Architecture

An architecture diagram is available next to this file. It's in the tldraw format.

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