v0.1.2406 Sep 2026·Rendering

Right-to-left languages, done right

Hebrew and Arabic now read correctly. Text in a right-to-left language used to be laid out backwards - running left to right in the wrong order; now it flows right to left the way it is meant to, a paragraph in one of those languages lines up on the right-hand side, and Arabic letters join into their natural flowing shapes instead of standing apart as separate, disconnected forms. Numbers and any English mixed into that text keep reading left to right, exactly as they should. Pages in left-to-right languages are unchanged, down to the pixel.

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	Right-to-left text is ordered correctly. A line of Hebrew or Arabic now reads from the right, with its words and letters in their proper places, instead of being drawn in the left-to-right order they happen to be stored in - a sentence that used to look reversed now reads naturally.
Rendering	Arabic joins up. Arabic is a cursive script whose letters change shape and connect to their neighbours; the engine now picks the right connected form for each letter, so Arabic renders as flowing joined script rather than a row of isolated stand-alone letters.
Rendering	Right-to-left paragraphs sit on the right. When a block of text is a right-to-left language and no alignment is set, it now starts from the right edge where readers of those languages expect it, while numbers or Latin words embedded inside still read left to right.