Haphaestus

JavaScript-free visual browser in Haskell, designed for a TV remote (pages presented as link menus, pagination instead of scrolling) and built on the infrastructure of the Rhapsode auditory browser; funded by NLnet.

Facts

Developer

Adrian Cochrane (OpenWork Ltd)

Website

haphaestus.org

Engine

Proprietary

Platforms

Linux

Details

Targets TVs; platforms not specified

Popularity

3/100 — Unreleased; in development

Key versions

1. Dec. 22, 2022
   —NLnet funding announced for this TV-remote browser.
2. Aug. 19, 2023
   —GPU-accelerated Mondrian rendering engine completed.
3. Sept. 25, 2023
   —Layout computation spread across multiple CPU cores.
4. Nov. 7, 2023
   —Work to assemble the Argonaut stack into an executable without crashes.
5. Mar. 16, 2024
   —CatTrap layout engine extended to the main CSS3 layout modes.

Version sources: argonaut-constellation.org

Sources

1. https://haphaestus.org
2. https://nlnet.nl/project/Haphaestus/
3. https://argonaut-constellation.org/blog
4. https://git.argonaut-constellation.org/~alcinnz/haphaestus/log