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Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

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Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

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Post by my123 »

Vinnl wrote: post #35
chuckdries wrote: post #28

I can't wait for people to start using this instead of chrome/electron to make desktop web apps. As much as I understand the philosophical (and at this point pragmatic) arguments against electron, there's something to be said about making deadlines and using technology your developers know well.

Not just for Electron, but also for embedded webviews on Android. Especially considering how Servo seems to be mostly lagging behind in supporting all the tiny edge cases and workarounds necessary for older sites, but not necessarily for modern web apps built specifically for it. And then hopefully people will start to notice that some of those applications are much faster on Android than they are on iOS, and Apple w…

Apple has a huge avantage because of the single-threaded performance in their SoCs, so they may afford to do nothing for a while.

Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

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Post by Ygg2 »

mundanevoice wrote: post #22
digitalshankar wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Talking is easy, Coding is Hard. Servo is still the most important aspect of Mozilla in terms of Security and Speed, I really think after the full development it will definitely beat the Google Chrome.

Haha. As if there is no development going on in V8. Rewriting anything doesn't mean it will beat it's competitors.

First of, isn't V8 the JavaScript engine of Chrome?

That's a bit apples to oranges comparison, no? One thing Servo didn't touch is JS Virtual machine, it's still SpiderMonkey. Rewriting that AND the layout engine would be suicidal.

Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

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Post by frik »

Thainbbdl wrote: post #17
frik wrote: post #16

VCRUNTIME140.dll required Why are open source projects built with Visual Studio these days? Especially as binaries built with VS2015 (release and up to service pack 2) are known to phone home "by accident". There are the GNU, Mingw, Msys, LLVM options on Windows - completely open source. Offer binary builds with at least one of these compilers on Windows platform.

I found the answer on moz hacks https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/hacking-contributing-to-se...

Thanks, that's answer.

@Mozilla: so please make the Mingw builds as download package as well. And don't forget to release everything as ZIP packages as well. (not just MSI)

Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

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Post by frik »

sgift wrote: post #31
frik wrote: post #14

Can you also offer a Zip package? (portable) Why only this MSI package?

See speps answer here - msi allows direct zip extraction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14104825

Why should the user do that? The project should do it with an automatic build script.

Every open source project worth mentioning releases also portable ZIP packages of the software. Mozilla's Servo windows builds get released only as MSI - why?

(BTW their win builds were available already for many months, just not linked from the frontpage, see bug tracker for more info)

Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

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Post by 1wd »

Nice.

I wondered, for what kind of problems should I bother to file issues? The page says:

> so please file issues about anything that doesn’t work as expected!

Wouldn't that be quite a lot of obvious stuff? I just opened one web page and see over ten rendering errors.

Even the text edit control of the built-in search-bar doesn't work as expected (text selection doesn't work, both with mouse and keyboard). There seems to be no way to scroll.

Then it crashed.

Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

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Post by AdamSC1 »

I'm really hopeful for this. The world needs a new browser engine, there is dwindling competition in this space and time and time again I find myself dissatisfied with browser offerings.

I've tried every obscure browser out there, and many of them are great at specific things but nearly all of them lack a few key features or present an experience that frequently crashes.

I think the Servo project is the biggest chance that Mozilla has to make an impact in its "Internet for the people mantra."

As a non-dev I will do my part by guinea pigging nightly builds and submitting issues!

Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

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Post by acqq »

ludlu wrote: post #39
educar wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the back story behind them having swedish surnames?

Alot of swedes emigrated to the US around 1800-1900s and spread all over the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_emigration_to_the_Unit...

Thanks. Tangentially, search for "The Alot is Better Than You at Everything"
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