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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embedding-shape 11 hours ago | parent [-]

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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QuadmasterXLII 11 hours ago | parent [-]

It is both extraordinarily impressive in an absolute sense, and fairly disappointing specifically comparing my result on a a random smattering of other no-js websites, to the expectation I had from the simonw screenshot (which to be clear is not an expectation you had control over, as you are not simonw). I'm familiar with this pattern from all the rest of my trying frontier ML results!

Yep, I ran it on an old windows 10 VM I had puttering about.

I think it must have a default link styling somewhere, as some links are the classic blue that as far as I know I intentionally styled to be black- but this could be css spaghetti in tufte.css finally coming to haunt me.

	▲	embedding-shape 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I'm familiar with this pattern from all the rest of my trying frontier ML results! Well, that's how this browser came to be, because I felt something similar to with how Cursor presented their results :) So I guess we're in the same club, somehow. And yeah, lots of websites render poorly, for obvious reasons, if it's better or worse than Cursor's I guess will be up to the public, I'm sure if I actually treated it as a professional project I could probably get it to work quite nicely rather than the abomination it currently is.