Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)
Published on: 2025-07-04 09:54:12
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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