Grob Browser

A web browser engine written in Rust, designed to be fast, efficient, and modular.

Project Structure

grob/
├── browser/          # Browser application
├── engine/           # Core browser engine
│   ├── dom/          # Document Object Model implementation
│   ├── font/         # Font handling and rendering
│   ├── js/           # JavaScript engine integration
│   ├── layout/       # Layout calculation engine
│   ├── net/          # Network and HTTP handling
│   ├── paint/        # Rendering and painting
│   ├── parser/       # HTML and CSS parsing
│   ├── platform/     # Platform-specific implementations
│   └── style/        # CSS style processing
└── target/           # Build artifacts

Building

To build the project, ensure you have Rust installed, then run:

cargo build

For a release build with optimizations:

cargo build --release

Running

To run the browser:

cargo run -p grob_browser

Components

• Browser: The main application entry point
• Engine: The core rendering engine that handles:
  • HTML parsing and DOM construction
  • CSS parsing and style calculation
  • Layout computation
  • Text rendering with font support
  • Network requests and HTTP handling
  • JavaScript integration
  • Platform-specific rendering

Requirements

• Rust 1.56 or later
• Standard development tools (C compiler, etc.) for native dependencies

Development

To run tests:

cargo test

To check code:

cargo check