BuildABrowser (Java)

About BuildABrowser (Java)

Passes Acid2, Has CSS Grid and an Android port

In the maker’s words

BuildABrowser Browser is an open-source browser and its rendering engine. It runs on Linux, Windows, and (experimental) Android Desktop. The rendering engine is written in Java, and features parsers and layout algorithms written from scratch. It is also embeddable, with pre-made embedding layers for Swing and Android Jetpack Compose. Because the renderer is modular, though, it is also possible to port the renderer to other platforms. GitHub repository: https://github.com/BuildABrowser/BuildABrowser Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWF7YPIoks8 (edit: there's now also a video on the channel of submitting the post from BAB) The browser has support for the following: * Layouts: flow/flow-root, flex, grid, table, inline variants of all prior listed - Note: subgrid is not supported. Some alignment properties present in flex are missing from grid. - Note: Table only supports `table-l…

Where people found it

• Hacker NewsShow HN: BuildABrowser (Java) – Passes Acid2, Has CSS Grid and an Android port4 points0 comments10 days ago