Add self-update feature please.
Self-updates are great for browsers that people are using every day, but please, please don't use Servo as your everyday browser just yet. :)
Servo nightly builds on Windows now available
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Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available
#102VCRUNTIME140.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.
Got some proof of phoning home?
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#103I'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…
> The world needs a new browser engine > 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.
Servo plus browserhtml could become a nice alternative considering that mozilla plans to kill XUL and thus firefox interface customization.
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#104This project has moved real slowly but keep remembering how often Eich referred to this as the most important aspect of Mozilla.
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.
You make it sound like the Google Chrome developers have completed their development and have gone home. By the time Firefox finishes their new Servo engine Chrome will be on version 65+. So lets see where we stand in terms of security and performance when Firefox actually starts shipping a production version of their new engine instead of calling it right now.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
He meant Blink, but he raises a valid point. Development on Blink is just as rapid as it is on Servo if not more so.
Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available
#106I just tried the Servo nightly tech demo on TheVerge.com. The first attempt crashed it and the second attempt rendered the page incorrectly. Memory usage was 1.27 GB.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
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"
Oh, this was awesome. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better... for the others.
Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available
#108VCRUNTIME140.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.
they don't allow the use of the latest api. ex: listening to dpi changes. but what they could do is to link statically with the runtime.
Rust can currently statically link the VC CRT, looks like servo doesn't compile with that option at the moment is all
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#109Re: Servo nightly builds on Windows now available
#110Awesome progress. Feels like a real alpha but I'm happy it's even displaying stuff and you can navigate some websites already.