https://github.com/tntmeijs/plain

A simple webbrowser built completely from scratch.
https://github.com/tntmeijs/plain

computer-graphics cpp network-programming vulkan webbrowser winsock

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A simple webbrowser built completely from scratch.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tntmeijs/plain
• Owner: tntmeijs
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-10-06T17:27:37.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-08-06T10:20:43.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-12-09T15:22:26.089Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: computer-graphics, cpp, network-programming, vulkan, webbrowser, winsock
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 262 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Plain

Welcome to the Plain project!

Plain is an educational project to learn more about how webbrowsers work.

Everyone has used webbrowsers, yet only a small number of people *really* know how they work.

Multiple decades worth of research have gone into the likes of [Google Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/), [Mozilla FireFox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/), or [Microsoft Edge](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge).

Plain will realistically never even come close to the commercial webbrowsers.

However, you will be able to navigate the web using Plain!

# Third-party libraries and SDKs

Writing a webbrowser from scratch is a lot of work.

To avoid spending a lot of time writing literally *everything* from scratch, Plain depends on a few third-party libraries and SDKs:

- [Vulkan](https://www.vulkan.org/): Next-generation API for 3D graphics and computing (could be seen as a "successor" to [OpenGL](https://www.opengl.org/)).

- [Spdlog](https://github.com/gabime/spdlog) ([MIT](https://github.com/gabime/spdlog/blob/v1.x/LICENSE)): Very fast, header-only/compiled, C++ logging library.

- [GLM](https://github.com/g-truc/glm) ([MIT](https://github.com/g-truc/glm/blob/master/copying.txt)): Header only C++ mathematics library.

- [GLFW](https://github.com/glfw/glfw) ([Zlib](https://github.com/glfw/glfw/blob/master/LICENSE.md)): A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input.

This project would not have been possible without the help of these awesome libraries. ♥

# Development log

## 30th of July 2023

- After a busy period at work, I finally found some time again to pick up this project.

- Put together Vulkan boilerplate code to render a triangle to the screen.

  ![hello vulkan triangle](media/20230730_hello_vulkan_triangle.png)

## 1st of January 2023

- Added queue family discovery.

- Added logical device creation.

## 20th of December 2022

- Added physical device (GPU) selection.

## 11th of December 2022

- Added Vulkan instance creation.

- Added Vulkan extension and validation layer configuration.

## 23rd of October 2022

- Created graphics project.

- Added window creation.

  ![window creation](media/20221023_window_creation.png)

## 22nd of October 2022

- Implemented very basic HTTP/1.1 protocol.

- Added logging to make it easier to debug the application.

- Managed to receive a valid response from a website.

  ![valid HTTP/1.1 response](media/20221022_valid_http_1_1_response.png)

## 8th of October 2022

- Created TCP socket abstraction layer for [WinSock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsock).

## 6th of October 2022

- Started working on Plain.