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1. Quadma+9A1[view] [source] 2026-01-27 20:00:38
>>embedd+(OP)
The rendering is pretty chaotic when I tried it- not that far off from just the text in the html tags, in some size, color, and placement on the screen. This sounds like unfairness, but there is some motte-and-bailey where if you claim to be a browser, I get to evaluate on stuff like links being consistently blue and underlined ( as is, they are sometimes blue and sometimes underlined, without a clear pattern- if they were never formatted differently from standard text, I would just buy this as a feature not implemented yet). It may be that some of the rendering is not supported on windows- the back button certainly isn't. I guess if I want to make my criticism actually legitimate I should make a "one human and no agent browser" post that just regexes out stuff that looks like content and formats it at random. The binary I downloaded definitely overperforms at the hacker news homepage and simonw's blog.
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2. embedd+vZ1[view] [source] 2026-01-27 21:31:50
>>Quadma+9A1
It's a really basic browser. It's made less as an independent thing, and more as a reply to https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents, so as long as it does more or less the same as theirs, but is less LOC, it does what I set out for it to do :)

> I get to evaluate on stuff like links being consistently blue and underlined

Yeah, this browser doesn't have a "default stylesheet" like a regular browser. Probably should have added that, but was mostly just curious about rendering the websites from the web, rather than using what browsers think the web should look like.

> It may be that some of the rendering is not supported on windows- the back button certainly isn't.

Hmm, on Windows 11 the back button should definitively work, tried that just last night. Are you perhaps on Windows 10? I have not tried that myself, should work but might be why.

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