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As far as I know (and people don't seem to talk about it all that much), the core of the browser is borrowed from a browser project called NetSurf (yes, there are others besides webkit / blink). So, technically, they're not really reimplementing HTML/CSS/HTTP/What-have-you.

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Nope. I mean, the parser's from there, but we're replacing it. We wrote a CSS parser to replace the NetSurf one we used for a bit, and all the layout code is from scratch. There's a Rust library called rust-http providing us with networking.

I see. Thanks!

We jettisoned most of the netsurf code a while ago. It was purely a stopgap measure. Only the HTML parser is still netsurf's and we're planning to rewrite it.

My bad. Sorry.

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