In this devlog I built the first half of my parser for the web engine; it can go through a website and match tokens!
There are a few issues; some things, like conditions (like <a href=> arnt supported), as well as I can’t pull text from things like headers and stuff.
I also made an animation so people can see how it works! The animations basically shows how my buffer system, and determining the order of tokens works, to prevent things like mismatches!
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Made a counter and it works
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I’ve Finally Designed The Back of My Space Shuttle.
I was able to add very crucial details like:
- Angle on the RS-25 engines (Space Shuttle Engines)
- Added much more detail and realism to the OMS
Engines (Smaller Steering Engines)
- Fixed the overall shape of the backside of the shuttle
- Added an RCS thruster port
My Next Goal is to Finish off the Left Solid Rocket Booster, and Then I’m Going to add More Detail to the External Fuel Tank.
If you have any suggestions on how to make the rocket better, feel free to send suggestions in the comments!
I was able to build a website demo for people to try out. To make this, I ran it on the Nest servers from Hack Club! However, I used a bit of AI, as I had never set up a server, as well as my project being only built for Windows. However, AI still hasn’t and will not be used in the main project. I did this as a bit of a time saver and to not have to commit 40+ times to test it lol. https://k754a.hackclub.app/
First version of the browser.
It is currently all through the terminal; there is no formatting, CSS, JavaScript, fonts, styles, or even structure to the text. However, any HTTP website can now be rendered into readable text, even if it’s a bit hard to see, lol!
The next version of this, I’m going to hook up a rendering pipeline (not sure to what yet, though). Then it will be allowing different fonts and structures, and then finally, support for some CSS.
What I have just described will probably take 200 hours!
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I Completed The First Side of The Rocket For My Shuttle
I still need to do the other side so I will work on that next and then I will almost be completed this project!
I update the web browser engine to allow the download of full files from websites in HTTP. This will pave the way to let me parse the website for the next devlog!
Some more changes I made were a bit more error handling and also refining some of the output to make it cleaner and retiring some of the older debug logs.
The next difficult part will be some basic parsing and pulling out text
Then I’ll attempt to render text without position (this will take about ~4 hours), and then I’ll work on formatting.
I built the first version of my web client. It can now pull HTML data from HTTP sites, using a TCP socket.
If you don’t know what I’m working on, I’m building a pure C++ browser engine, to load and render websites like google without the use of AI and libraries.
Note that it does not work for https, as to build a handshake between the 2 is super difficult, even for a good programmer.
The next step will be to pull an entire webpage off and save it in RAM.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you follow my journey!
Using C++ and native windows libraries, i was able to connect to a website and pull some data off of it.
this was super difficult, but im super happy it worked, its able to connect to any IPV4, http site.
my next plan is to start pulling files, like html into ram from websites.
The overall of my essay, is just laying out how im going to be building a web engine
from scratch. its not going to run JavaScirpt or interface with HTTPS off the bat, as i
have to code all of that and it sucks.
https://github.com/k754a/C-Plus-Plus-Web-Engine/blob/main/README.md
(this is a link to it as i could not upload a pdf file.)
Overall, this will be one of the most complex projects I’ve ever tried/attempted to
take on, even over https://github.com/k754a/C-Custom-Code-Editor by a long shot.
This will 100% test my research, development, and C++ skills, but I believe that even
if I’m not able to pull this off, I will learn a lot about how browsers work and good
C++ practices. I hope you will follow my progress on GitHub and Stardance as I build
this!
