Browser

(The name is going to change one day, I promise.)

Browser is a web browser written from scratch in C++.

Building

The build process uses Meson and Ninja.

Configure the build directory like so:

$ meson setup builddir/

Meson will look for the cURL library and the Qt framework and enable their respective shells. If libcurl, freetype or fontconfig cannot be found, Meson will download and build them.

Once it's configured, run:

$ ninja

Now you're building Browser.

cURL Shell

The cURL shell (executable shells/curl/browser_curl) is a test shell using libcurl.

To use it, run it with the first argument being the website that you want to visit. Once it's done parsing, it will output a test.ppm image with the rendered content.

Qt shell

The Qt shell (executable shells/qt/browser_qt) is a shell which uses Qt for requests, URL control and displaying rendered content.

To use it, just run it, enter your URL and press enter, and wait a second for it to load all data.