v0.1.2218 Jul 2026·Rendering

Navigation bars get their spacing back

A sweep of real sites turned up the same thing in three places: navigation and breadcrumb links rendering jammed together. On a news site and a code-hosting site the top navigation read "HomeNewsFootballSport" with no gaps, because a link's own left/right padding was being left out of the space its list item reserved. On a developer-docs site the breadcrumb ("Web > CSS > Reference > display") had no separators at all: the little chevron between crumbs is drawn by an empty decorative element, and the engine was skipping empty decorative elements entirely. Both are fixed, plus the engine now understands the modern "logical" spacing properties (margin-inline, padding-block, and friends) that most current design systems use. Navigation bars, breadcrumbs, and button rows across the web now keep the spacing their designers intended.

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 3 changes

Rendering	Navigation links keep their padding: a block-level link's left/right padding now counts toward the space its container reserves, so nav bars on a news site, a code-hosting site, and similar sites render "Home News Sport" with real gaps instead of one run-on word.
Rendering	Empty decorative elements render: the modern icon/separator idiom (an element with no text, sized and given a background or a masked icon) now draws instead of collapsing to nothing. A developer-docs site's breadcrumb chevrons appear between crumbs.
Rendering	Logical box properties: margin-inline / margin-block, padding-inline / padding-block, and their single-side forms now apply, so layouts built with the spacing properties current design systems favor get their intended gaps.