The web browser of NyxOS — HTTP and HTTPS over a from-scratch TLS stack, rendered from scratch.
Selene — named for the goddess of the moon, the light of Nyx's night — is the web browser of NyxOS. It fetches pages over the OS's own IPv4/TCP stack, speaks HTTPS through a from-scratch TLS client, parses the HTML, and paints the result — text, links and images — into a Hemera window.
There is no borrowed engine anywhere: the sockets, the TLS handshake, the HTML parser, and the JPEG / PNG / GIF decoders are all part of NyxOS.
Selene — the address bar, tab strip and page area of the NyxOS browser
- Networking — HTTP and HTTPS (a from-scratch TLS client) over the NyxOS TCP/IP stack
- Rendering — a linear HTML renderer with text and links
- Images — built-in JPEG, PNG and animated GIF decoders
- Chrome — an address bar, back button, and a tab strip (new tab / close)
- Opens as an ordinary Hemera window
Selene is one of the apps that live on top of Hemera, the NyxOS compositor, and leans on the kernel's TCP/TLS/image subsystems. Today it is compiled into the kernel under kernel/gui/apps/selene_win.c; the roadmap is a standalone ring-3 ELF. This repository holds a source snapshot (src/).
| Component | Repo | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Hemera | hemera | the compositor / desktop |
| Erebus | erebus | the terminal |
| Selene | (here) | the web browser |
| Mnemosyne | mnemosyne | the text editor |
src/selene_win.c— the browser: fetch, TLS glue, HTML parse/render, tabs, image drawingsrc/selene_win.h— the public interface
Built into the NyxOS kernel and browsing the live web today; the standalone-ELF split is the roadmap.