# danfragoso/thdwb

🌭 The hotdog web browser and browser engine 🌭

Repository: https://github.com/danfragoso/thdwb
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/thdwb
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: browser-engine, web-browser, hotdog, golang, ketchup, mayo, mustard, sauce, html-renderer
Last push: 2023-03-07T01:16:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2597, "days_push": 1276, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1142, forks 65 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:44.697052+00:00)

## What it is
THDWB (The Hotdog Web Browser) is a web browser with its own layout and rendering engine, HTML/CSS parsers, and UI toolkit, written from scratch in Go with minimal dependencies (OpenGL and GLFW). It is primarily an educational project for learning how browsers work under the hood.

## Use cases
- learn how web browsers work internally
- study browser engine architecture
- explore html parsing and dom tree building
- understand css layout and rendering
- build a minimal web browser from scratch
- teach browser internals with a readable codebase

## When to choose
- you want to read a small, from-scratch browser codebase to learn engine internals
- you need a minimal Go example of HTML/CSS parsing and OpenGL rendering
- you're teaching or studying how layout, DOM, and render trees work

## When to avoid
- you need a stable, spec-compliant browser for daily use
- you need to render modern complex websites reliably
- you need production-grade security or standards support

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: experimental
- function: browser-extension, parser, ui-components, http-client, graphics
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, education
- platform: windows, go
- tags: browser-engine, html-parser, css-parser, opengl, learning-project, rendering-engine, linux, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- danfragoso/thdwb (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:44.697052+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 2026-08-30T06:35:04.887289+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/danfragoso/thdwb (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:44.697052+00:00, sha 88cf8bdbca39)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.