v0.1.2132 Sep 2026·Tabs & interface

Floati's own engine now draws your pages by default on Mac

This is the one the whole engine has been building toward. Until now, the browser you actually saw was the system's; Floati's from-scratch engine only rendered a page when you asked it to. On Mac, that flips: normal browsing is now drawn by Floati's own engine by default, and the system browser becomes a safety net Floati quietly falls back to only when a page cannot be drawn - and stays there for that site, with a one-tap way back. It is the engine we have been sharpening release after release, now the browser you use, with the system browser demoted to a fallback we will remove entirely once we match the reference browser everywhere. You can turn it off any time in Settings. It ships the moment it did because the real-site test - a large encyclopedia, a developer-docs site, news front pages - renders at parity and, thanks to last release's early-paint work, appears fast. On Windows it stays opt-in a little longer while its in-window graphics path is finished. Riding along: modern layouts and page-measuring scripts got truer to the web too.

Parity with the reference browser

74overall, as of v0.1.343

Web APIs / DOM surface42

Security architecture66

GPU / graphics acceleration68

DevTools / extensions72

Networking85

Media85

Accessibility85

Real-world site compatibility99

HTML parsing100

CSS parsing + selectors100

Layout: block / flex / grid / tables / writing-modes100

Paint + visual100

JavaScript language100

JavaScript performance (JIT)100

HTML parsing100

What changed 4 changes

Tabs & interface	On Mac, the pages you browse are now drawn by Floati's own from-scratch engine by default, not the system browser underneath. The system browser is now only a safety net - if a page cannot be drawn, Floati falls back to it for that site and leaves a one-tap way back. This is the engine, sharpened over dozens of releases, finally being the browser you use rather than an option you pick; the system browser is a fallback we will remove once we match the reference browser everywhere. Turn it off any time in Settings. On Windows the engine stays opt-in for now while its in-window graphics path lands.
Tabs & interface	Modern grid layouts render truer to the web. A sidebar deliberately built to overhang its column, and a panel sized to exactly fit rather than stretch to the column, now land where they do in the reference browser instead of being clamped or squeezed - so pages that use these common layout tricks look right.
Tabs & interface	Sites that use the ':has()' relationship selector now style correctly. It is a modern way to style an element based on what sits inside it - many sites now use it for menus and nested lists - and Floati now matches the deeper forms of it the way the reference browser does, so those menus and lists get their intended spacing.
Tabs & interface	Pages that measure their own styling get real answers. A script reading an element's spacing or size used to get a blank for anything the page did not spell out explicitly; it now gets the correct value, so interactive widgets that position themselves by measuring the page - popovers, sliders, sticky bars - behave correctly.