v0.1.2488 Sep 2026·Rendering

Rendering fidelity: pages that look right

A layout and paint release aimed at the reading web, tested against the reference browser on real pages. Pictures that sit beside text, the thumbnails a large encyclopedia and news sites lean on, now render the way they do in a mainstream browser: the right size, flush against the column edge, with the words wrapping cleanly around them instead of running over them or the picture disappearing behind a block further down the page. Code samples size to the space beside a floated image rather than overrunning it, numbered reference lists indent correctly, and content laid out in newspaper-style columns keeps each item's spacing and borders aligned to the column. And a malformed or half-downloaded image can no longer stop a page from rendering. Every fix is a general one, verified by the automatic pixel checks against the reference browser, so it lifts every content-heavy site, not just the one it was found on. Pages that did not hit these cases are unchanged.

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

Rendering	Pictures beside text land where they should. A photo or diagram that floats to the side of an article (the thumbnails a large encyclopedia and news sites use everywhere) now renders at its full size, sits flush against the edge of the text column, and lets the words wrap cleanly to its side, exactly as in the reference browser. Before, some of these were squashed, pushed into the middle of the text, or painted behind a block below them and vanished entirely.
Rendering	Code samples and reference lists line up. A code block set beside a floated image now shrinks to the space next to it instead of overrunning the picture, and numbered footnote and reference lists indent the way every other browser draws them.
Rendering	Newspaper-style columns stay aligned. Content laid out in multiple columns now keeps each item's margins, borders and spacing aligned to the column edge, and a box that breaks to the next column starts flush at its top, matching the reference browser.
Rendering	A broken image can't take the page down. A malformed or half-downloaded GIF now shows as a broken image and the rest of the page renders normally, instead of the bad data stopping the render.