Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests
Bez - a generated web engine# Generate a web rendering engine from specs and tests. Why# Building a web engine by hand costs hundreds of engineers and many years, so only a few companies can have one, and only they decide how the web works. Bez generates the engine instead: from the specifications, with the three shipping browsers (checked against each other) and WPT as the tests.
- ▪Bez - a generated web engine# Generate a web rendering engine from specs and tests.
- ▪Why# Building a web engine by hand costs hundreds of engineers and many years, so only a few companies can have one, and only they decide how the web works.
- ▪Bez generates the engine instead: from the specifications, with the three shipping browsers (checked against each other) and WPT as the tests.
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| Original publisher | Tangled |
| Canonical URL | https://tangled.org/burrito.space/bez |
| Publication time | Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:08:03 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-01T18:53:49.502Z |
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Bez - a generated web engine# Generate a web rendering engine from specs and tests. Why# Building a web engine by hand costs hundreds of engineers and many years, so only a few companies can have one, and only they decide how the web works. Bez generates the engine instead: from the specifications, with the three shipping browsers (checked against each other) and WPT as the tests. Once the pipeline exists, each extra engine costs very little. Goals# Complete, or tree-shaken. The default build is a complete engine. For uses other than a web browser, a build can instead contain only the web features its content uses: analyse a site or an app, and every feature it never touches is left out of the binary, not just switched off (docs/content-scoped-engine.md). Fast on any device.
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