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Just so you Servo folks know, we appreciate the plan of shipping components incrementally in Firefox, and realize the necessity, and how big a project building a whole browser is… …and yet… …I think you know we're all waiting for Servo itself to be usable as our main browser :-) Good luck!
We're all exited about Servo (and Rust) and I'm really looking forward to using it. But what makes software that's used everyday feel great are the small details. I can't use Chrome (for consumption, though I use it for development) because of the way it renders text and a few other UI annoyances. A browser is a lot of things, but to me, it's first and foremost a reading platform. So please, do whatever you can to us…
>> So please, do whatever you can to use the OS's native text rendering. That seems odd and would mean different quality on different platforms. Yes, if native is better than built-in then I agree. But what if their GL based text rendering is just fine, shouldn't they use it everywhere because it's portable?
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> every 5th german is named lars That is completely untrue. Lars isn't exactly a rare name in Germany, but I'd be surprised if it was even one of the 20 most common first names. It's definitely nowhere near 1/5th of the population.
GP was making a joke. :)
Meanwhile, the Linux nightly build has been broken on all major distros for a while (see https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/12015 ), because the project won't bundle openssl. For a nightly. Which they already do for Firefox (all release channels). And of course, there are bundling it for this Windows nightly as well…
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 chanc…
> As a non-dev
I expect you are just responding to the inherent lack of performance that the javascript + html + css bundle shamelessly provides, which Servo will do nothing to sort out. Webassembly on the other hand is the first step to bringing superior performance to all browsers.
I loved reading https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/12125 . It is a great example of open source persistence despite it not being a priority. Things move forward at snail pace and stalls multiple times. Just when all hope seems lost, they manage to ship it ! This is the case with most opensource projects - things take their own sweet time but they eventually somehow manage. On a side note, I noted that https://gith…
It has been pointed out more than once to me that I could instead of purchased many other .com names that were available at that time and be semi-retired :-)
Very, very nonresponsive. Sometimes when I press a letter in a form, it won't respond at all, but when I press it again, it will show up... and then when I press the next letter, the previous letter shows up. Which I thought was strange behavior. EDIT: When I say "won't respond at all," I counted to 30 before the next keypress eventually just to verify I was really seeing what I was seeing.
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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...