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Re: Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

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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

Aha, I'm getting 97/100 on Safari

96/100 with Brave on Android

Re: Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

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post #5

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

hmm. i wonder if any of the stuff they have changed since then is stuff i could legitimate not do without in a browser

Re: Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

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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

Exactly. It's meaningless now and I stopped looking at it a few years before 2017 when I ran a Web dev shop

Re: Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

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What's the Speedometer 3.1 [0] rating for that browser paired with an M5? [0]: https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/

For reference, Safari is doing around 53, and Chrome is around 60 for M5, of which they were bragging about [0]. So curious to see whether there's any gains from your custom browser.

[0]: https://blog.google/chromium/a-double-victory-for-web-speed-...

Re: Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

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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

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.

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?

Re: Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

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post #5

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

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.

Re: Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

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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.

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.

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