browser-engine

OpenHeronBrowser is a new independent web browser engine written from scratch in Rust (~85k lines), built with Claude's help, scoring Acid3 97/100 and running real sites like Discord, VS Code for the Web, and Windows 1.01 via v86. Released as an Apache 2.0 desktop demo for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Servo 0.6.0 ships 417 commits from August, enabling CSS Grid by default alongside new web platform features like touch-action, animation-composition, and numerous DOM APIs, plus navigation and session history improvements.

Lightpanda 1.0 has left beta and is production-ready, a browser written from scratch in Zig for machines and AI agents that now passes 1.7M Web Platform Tests subtests and enforces CORS by default while using a fraction of Chrome's memory and CPU.

Bez is a project that generates a web rendering engine from W3C specs and tests, using AI models to write candidate Rust code that is verified against Chromium, Firefox and WebKit rendering results before being committed.

This article summarizes the July 2026 updates to the Servo web engine, featuring new platform support, performance enhancements, and the addition of web fonts in SVG along with various new web platform features.

Servo's June 2026 progress report highlights a record 558 commits, new CSS media query features, SharedWorker support, and other web platform improvements in version 0.4.0.

Servo 0.3.0 released with 391 commits, adding new font features, mp4 support without fast start, new DOM APIs, and DevTools blackboxing, among other improvements.

Servo browser engine released version 0.2.0 with 534 commits, adding new Android UI, web platform features like <select multiple>, <template>, color-mix(), tab-size, security fixes, and new DOM APIs.

A developer built Obscura, an open-source headless browser engine in Rust designed specifically for AI agents, web scraping, and automation, claiming it's more lightweight than Chrome.

The Servo browser engine is now available as an embeddable Rust crate (v0.1.0), enabling developers to integrate web rendering capabilities into Rust applications. A new CLI tool `servo-shot` demonstrates its capability to render web pages to PNG using a software-based rendering pipeline.