# browserhtml/browserhtml

Experimental Servo browser built in HTML

Repository: https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/browserhtml
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: servo, browser
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-07-27T05:41:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4258, "days_push": 2959, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2602, forks 161 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:03.404973+00:00)

## What it is
Browser.html is an experimental browser UI built entirely in HTML, designed to run on top of Mozilla's Servo engine via the Graphene runtime. It also served as a research project exploring how native-like applications can be built with web technologies.

## Use cases
- experiment with a browser UI written in HTML
- research how Servo renders web-based application shells
- build and test native-style apps in HTML with Graphene
- explore alternative browser frontends on desktop
- study a retired Mozilla research codebase

## When to choose
- you are researching Servo's Graphene runtime or HTML-based app shells
- you want to study the architecture of a browser UI built in HTML
- you need historical reference material from Mozilla's Servo experiments

## When to avoid
- you need a working, maintained browser for daily use
- you want a project with active development or support
- you need a browser that runs on modern Servo or Gecko builds

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-framework, frontend-framework, http-server
- domain: web-development, browser-extensions, developer-tools
- platform: windows
- tags: servo, browser-ui, graphene, research-project, retired, html-apps, macos, linux, nodejs, desktop

## Member repositories
- browserhtml/browserhtml (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:03.404973+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:21:08.453061+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:03.404973+00:00, sha 39ae0425e5dc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.