{"slug": "blitz", "name": "Blitz", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 2, "warners": 0, "score": 1.181, "rising": -0.33, "first": "2026-05-02", "latest": "2026-08-19", "why": "this browser prototype [0] is getting pretty good too", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "this browser prototype [0] is getting pretty good too", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/dioxuslabs/blitz", "official_url": "https://github.com/dioxuslabs/blitz", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Blitz"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 768781568, "item_id": 48048848, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048848", "by": "satvikpendem", "date": "2026-05-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There are now binaries available for Blitz: https://blitz.is/downloads", "excerpt": "There are now binaries available for Blitz: https://blitz.is/downloads I used to disable Javascript by default but found that it was hard to actually get anything done on the Internet but maybe now we can use this sort of browser for pure informational websites and also save RAM. That is in fact what Dioxus Native is all about which wraps Blitz for a UI framework.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing informational websites without JS", "switched_from": "", "story": "This Month in Ladybird - April 2026"}, {"id": 767854896, "item_id": 47990931, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990931", "by": "satvikpendem", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "this browser prototype [0] is getting pretty good too", "excerpt": "If you want to use no-Javascript browser as well, this browser prototype [0] is getting pretty good too. It's developed by Dioxus, a GUI framework in Rust, as part of its native renderer which seeks to create their own alternative to Skia, similar to Flutter, but it'll work on the web as well with HTML and CSS standards unlike Flutter web which is just a canvas. 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I am currently in the process of building a wider browser engine / GUI toolkit on top of it (https://github.com/dioxuslabs/blitz). As part of that I am implementing a lot of the messier parts of CSS layout (floats, etc), and also grinding on fixing all the WPT tests which we track here: https://blitz.is/status/wpt/css/css-flexbox. 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I used Blitz a while ago for a product research spike around composing HTML to be rendered directly in a terminal with kitty or iterm's image protocol: https://www.npmjs.com/package/kittyhtml https://github.com/kkukshtel/kittyhtml", "context": "", "use_case": "rendering HTML in terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library"}, {"id": 768781568, "item_id": 48048848, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048848", "by": "satvikpendem", "date": "2026-05-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There are now binaries available for Blitz: https://blitz.is/downloads", "excerpt": "There are now binaries available for Blitz: https://blitz.is/downloads I used to disable Javascript by default but found that it was hard to actually get anything done on the Internet but maybe now we can use this sort of browser for pure informational websites and also save RAM. 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