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If no 'browsing' features are included, isn't what you're left with the rendering engine itself?

It seems like WebKit's WKWebView (or WebKitWebView on gtk, or ewk_view on efl) is pretty much what you're asking for.

Edit: WKView should be WKWebView, sorry

By no "browsing features" I mean something closer to a headless browser. Just a library. Is that what WKView is about?

Yeah, it provides all the features of a browser without the UI for them. You embed the WKWebView (not WKView, I mistyped) in your browser app and call methods on it to load URLs, go back and forward, and so on.

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