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Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :) It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so w…

> A stand-alone copy of this page is available for use in other browsers to compare performance.

Speaking of which, do you have any systematic benchmark testing set-up for comparing various performance aspects? If so, what are the numbers?

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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post #59
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Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :) It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so w…

I miss SVGs, , Youtube embeds, and the layouting is off. Sometimes mouse wheel doesn't work, was stuck once scrolled. Biggest problem is keyboard layout isn't right. I tested on OSX, nice work overall!

There is a fix in the pipelien for keyboard layout, and we are aware of the mouse wheel issue.

Please file bugs for layout being off -- we know that this sometimes happens, but it's good to have testcases. As for embeds, that's not priority now, but we should eventually get them.

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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I started it and it worked, nice to see this progress!

Two things though: 1. when I opened the tab sitebar clicking on a tab closed it. 2. I cannot reproduce this, but servo hung when i closed the window, it stayed open, but did not rerender on resize. Using gentoo with Xorg, running dwm as window manager.

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :) It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so w…

> A stand-alone copy of this page is available for use in other browsers to compare performance. Speaking of which, do you have any systematic benchmark testing set-up for comparing various performance aspects? If so, what are the numbers?

We have https://treeherder.allizom.org/perf.html#/graphs?timerange=2...

It's not really ready for public consumption, just a dashboard for us to tell how we are doing.

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :) It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so w…

Do you have an ETA for when the Windows version might be available for us to try?

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Looking forward to using Servo one day, keep up the good work.

First thing I noticed almost immediately after launching is that everything breaks when dragging the window across monitors (that have different densities) - OS X. I dragged from my Macbook's display to an external monitor with a lower DPI and everything went huge and most of the UI got cut off. Dragging back to the Macbook display does not resolve the issue and instead introduces some weird redraw flickering with garbage data.

EDIT: Reported - https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/12009

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Looks like visiting a Youtube video linked to via reddit.com/r/videos crashed it. The whole UX is locked up, so I can't click the "Click to submit report" button either. screenshot [1] Either way, I'm already impressed by how zippy it is :D [1] http://virtivia.com:27080/1ekpk4zch3tjg.png

Fixed: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/12003 There's a more serious error in the url parsing that caused this, due to some wierd stuff google is doing with punycode. I haven't looked into that yet. But youtube no longer crashes -- so you can now enjoy window-shopping on youtube!

Daaaamn that was fast. Keep up the good work!
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