Nordstjernen releases Sol Explorer 1.0.40
What happened
On November 5, Hacker News' front page covered Nordstjernen, Northstar and Southstar, minimal browsers written in C and Rust. Nordstjernen's Sol Explorer 1.0.40 adds Shared Web Workers, ElementInternals and real popups, plus GStreamer hardware decoding for VP9, AV1 and HEVC. The release also offers an optional Rust memory-safe IPC parser. The report covers only this release and those additions.
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- Hacker News front pageNordstjernen, Northstar, Southstar: minimalist webbrowsers in C and Rust
Nordstjernen 发布 Sol Explorer 1.0.40，新增 Shared Web Workers、ElementInternals、真实弹窗与 GStreamer 硬件 VP9/AV1/HEVC 解码，并加入可选的 Rust 内存安全 IPC 解析器。
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