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Servo to Advance in 2023

by ewired on 1/16/23, 1:09 PM with 50 comments

  • by Vinnl on 1/16/23, 2:43 PM

    Looks like the external funding at least consists of Igalia dedicating four people: https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/

  • by _zllx on 1/16/23, 1:12 PM

    Excited to see the renewed interest in Servo. Another new web engine that is coming along nicely is SerenityOS LibWeb: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...

  • by tracerbulletx on 1/16/23, 8:10 PM

    I think an Electron replacement would be a killer app for servo. I hope that happens.

  • by DrBazza on 1/16/23, 4:59 PM

    > The first task is to reactivate the project and the community around it

    What does that mean, when there's active development of the github repository?

    It's never been deactivated has it?

  • by shmerl on 1/16/23, 6:14 PM

    Good to hear! I'd like to see Servo and Firefox switching to Vulkan from OpenGL on Linux.

  • by revskill on 1/16/23, 3:08 PM

    Is there any tool in Rust that allows auto import module based on usage ? A VSCode extension is perfect.

  • by thrwawy74 on 1/17/23, 8:00 AM

    I know it's not related to the rendering engine, but I really hope side-effort is expended on marrying Firefox to the Chrome Embedded Framework (CEF). This is a major roadblock to getting Firefox in more embedded, webview, and in-game spaces.

    (My naive understanding)

  • by devit on 1/16/23, 5:31 PM

    I'd suggest those priorities, in order:

    1. Making a fully secure no-JavaScript browser for Tor usage

    2. A secure browser that works on major websites

    3. Android support

    4. Embedding support

    5. Extensions support

    6. All missing features supported by both Firefox and Chrome, roughly in order of addition to the web standards

    7. Replace Firefox

    8. All features supported by any browser

  • by WastingMyTime89 on 1/16/23, 2:59 PM

    It’s shame Mozilla gimped Servo by shackling it to Gecko for political reasons and giving it utterly stupid priorities like VR. Some of the ideas put forward were great. It was really inspiring to see that such a cool R&D project was possible in a space as uncompetitive as web browsers.