Andreessen

A simple web browser, written in pure C++, with no external libraries

By Jack Fischer, Nik Vanderhoof, and Ethan Schoen

Andreessen is a very bare bones proof of concept that won Cornell University's BigRedHacks in fall 2016. It should build on macOS and Ubuntu without modification and automatically render a demo page.

Supported HTML tags

• p
• div
• img
• span

Supported CSS Properties

• display: block, inline
• background-color
• background: linear-gradient
• margin

In honor of this guy!

Architecture

We rewrote facilities for the entire stack, ranging from HTTP over TCP socket, to internal algorithms, to render.