Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3(code.intellios.ai)
56 pointsby coolwulf6 hours ago11 comments
  • NetOpWibby16 minutes ago
    Your own engine?! Wow, that's incredible. Is this gonna be like Servo where people can build a browser around this, or will it be a standalone browser?

    I recently switched from Arc to Helium but it's still Chrome with different paint. When I was using Opera 12, it was the most standards-compliant browser so it became my main. What are the goals for cwbrowser (and is the name permanent)?

  • Kon5ole5 hours ago
    Faster than chrome and 100% clearance of acid3 is certainly interesting, and a great achievement for a solo dev, good job!

    I’d love to see something entirely FOSS dethrone the big corp browsers, hope that’s the goal here.

  • krackers5 hours ago
    Modern browsers should no longer score 100 on Acid 3 though.

    >By April 2017, the updated specifications had diverged from the test such that the latest versions of Google Chrome, Safari and Mozilla Firefox no longer pass the test as written

    • heisgone2 hours ago
      Yes, but considering the goal of his project is a proof of concept, that is, proving this project is possible, acid3 is a good place to start to prove the worth of the project and aiming 100% first make more sense. Tweaks will be needed one way or another to make it equivalent to the big 3.
    • assimpleaspossi2 hours ago
      Exactly. It's meaningless now and I stopped looking at it a few years before 2017 when I ran a Web dev shop
    • 0gs2 hours ago
      hmm. i wonder if any of the stuff they have changed since then is stuff i could legitimate not do without in a browser
    • 5555watch5 hours ago
      Aha, I'm getting 97/100 on Safari
  • bubblebeardan hour ago
    Super cool! Any plans to release it for Linux? Would love to test it but I have no Mac unfortunately
  • 5555watch6 hours ago
    What's the Speedometer 3.1 [0] rating for that browser paired with an M5?

    [0]: https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/

  • esafak2 hours ago
    What's the goal? Did you learn anything interesting?
  • ranger_dangeran hour ago
    closed source?
  • LoganDark3 hours ago
    Huh, cool, let me know when it's available. I like trying out alternative browser engines every now and then.
  • fragmede2 hours ago
    In terms of engines, Fastrender, by cursor, is AI generated in rust. Don't know why no one's picked that up and run with it yet.
    • tyrean hour ago
      Cursor was lambasted from the start because they wrote blog posts about writing a browner “from scratch in rust” but it was neither without dependencies nor actually worked.

      It was not serious engineering. It was a side project experiment with yeeting tokens into the sun.

  • peesem6 hours ago
    i'm assuming this is written with LLMs given the writing on that page and the nature of the other "products" on that website. i would not call that hand-written, as the page does in the second paragraph
    • coolwulf6 hours ago
      I did use LLM for the landing page since I don't have much time on it. The browser however not that much. I did use claude and my own cwcode to help developing this, but a lot of times the zig code had to be written by hand. Hope this answered your question.
      • adipose2 hours ago
        this admittedly makes it even a harder sell to have so little (any?) source code available on github, gitlab, codeberg, whatever.

        what's the deal with that? why is Google Drive zips your main distribution method, with no source available?

        and finally: are you going to change this?

  • tetrisgm4 hours ago
    Congrats. I’d love a very agent friendly browser by the way