Subj : Ladybird Proves You CAN Just Build a New Web Browser
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From : LundukeJournal
Date : Fri Jul 25 2025 00:00:08

Ladybird Proves You CAN Just Build a New Web Browser

Date:
Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:51:59 GMT

Description:
The Google / Mozilla stooges said, It cant be done!. Ladybird said, Hold my 
beer.

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One of my favorite things is seeing a small team (or even just a solo 
developer) come along and put the big teams  the entrenched powers  to shame. 
 I get a real kick out of it. 

I love it when there is a deafening chorus of It cant be done! and someone 
comes along and says Hold my beer. 

Case in point: The world of Web Browsers has been dominated by two primary 
rendering engines  one driven by Google and the other driven by Mozilla (but 
funded almost entirely by Google).  And there is an almost endless supply of 
Google / Mozilla stooges who try to discourage anyone from making a new 
competitor. 

But you cant just build a new web browser engine, they exclaim! 

Its too complex to pull off, says the stooge.  You need hundreds of 
developers working on it for years to make a real web browser engine!  Better 
just leave that work to Google and Mozilla! 

Weve all heard statements like that.  Poo-poo-ing any attempt at building a 
truly new web browser engine as too difficult or even impossible.  The 
purpose is to shut down the dreams of solo developers and small teams.  To 
stop them from competing with the big dogs. 

In fact, right on cue, when the Ladybird web browser project was announced  a 
truly from scratch browser engine  they trotted out those same lines.  By the 
droves. 

Heck, many even began smear campaigns against Ladybird in an effort to stop 
the project entirely. 

But Ladybird didnt stop.  Development has continued. 

And, oh-lawdy, the progress has been amazing. 

Allow me to share with you a selection of screenshots  showing off the state 
of Ladybird, posted by the developer who started the project  which prove 
that a web browser engine can absolutely be built by a small team. 

It may be challenging.  But it can be done. 

Take a look, and tell me if youre not deeply impressed. 

Yeah, thats the Cut the Rope game.  Fully playable in Ladybird. 

Were not talking about HTML table layouts and HREF tags here.  This 
represents a huge collection of different Web technologies developed from 
scratch.  All working to an amazing degree. 

Web IDEs?  Yeah.  Those are working in Ladybird, too. 

Freaking Discord?  Working.  It may not be 100% here  the developer calls it 
usable but a little glitchy  but thats a lot of modern web browser-y-ness 
working to make that happen. 

To showcase the rapid speed of development In the span of two weeks, Ladybird 
added over 12,000 new (passing) web-platform-tests.  Youll note on this bar 
chart that Ladybird is quickly catching up to Firefox. 

Its not there yet but, at the current rate?  We may have a usable Ladybird  
for most daily browser uses  before you know it. 

Just to put that all in perspective, here is the first iteration of Ladybird 
a few years back: 

Now go take a look at those other screenshots again. 

Come a long way, eh? 

Theres a lesson here. 

When an army of people shout, in unison, that something cannot be done ignore 
them and hand somebody your beer.



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Link to news story:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ladybird-proves-you-can-just-build


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