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A browser^, at a minimum, should support HTML + CSS (+1 if it supports the latest specification).

Edit: ^A modern browser

That seems like an overly narrow definition of what a browser "should" be. I think there's enough choice that niche projects like this can exist.

...a browser for what ? Kristall is (near) perfect, for its work

Agree. This cool project should be called "a user agent", not a browser.

By that definition, many screen reader browsers would not be considered browsers yet they enable the user to surf the web none the less.

That’s not how a screen reader works. It interfaces with a “normal” browser’s exposed accessibility tree, and generates speech / Braille from that.

As stated by robin_reala, that is not how screen readers work. At minimum they still definitely parse CSS as many accessibility enhancements were only introduced by CSS with no equivalent (or even a workaround) using pure HTML, and in practice will also require to have JavaScript support because when a website decides to be an obnoxious GPU-hungry Flutter application even CSS wouldn't cut it.

This is not really correct, many screen readers only support a very small subset of CSS which doesn't really match the parent's comment, that browsers must support HTML and CSS.

> This is not really correct, many screen readers only support a very small subset of CSS which doesn't really match the parent's comment, that browsers must support HTML and CSS.

This doesn't match with current versions of accessibility software which either connects to a browser or simply bundles an embedded version of Chromium. The ship has sailed on no-JS websites sadly, and not supporting (substantially) all of CSS modules would simply render 90% of websites inaccessible.

If modern browser should be that then Kristall is a post-modern browser

It should not support CSS, just HTML, HTTP and HTTPS. The browser should render the document based on its semantics and the users preference.

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