Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

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Post by Leynos » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 7:09 AM UTC

Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly
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Re: Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

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Post by H4CK3RM4N » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 8:44 AM UTC

I really like this idea of switching over to servo bit by bit. It makes me happy that there might be a real WebKit alternative again.

Re: Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

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Post by NiLSPACE » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 8:47 AM UTC

H4CK3RM4N wrote: post #2

I really like this idea of switching over to servo bit by bit. It makes me happy that there might be a real WebKit alternative again.

I'd argue that Gecko is a real WebKit alternative. It has improved quite dramatically lately, have you tried Firefox Nightly?

Re: Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

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Post by NiLSPACE » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 8:48 AM UTC

There is also a discussion on the Rust reddit about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6p9s24/psa_you_can_tr...

Re: Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

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Post by wodenokoto » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 8:50 AM UTC

NiLSPACE wrote: post #3

H4CK3RM4N wrote: post #2

I really like this idea of switching over to servo bit by bit. It makes me happy that there might be a real WebKit alternative again.

I'd argue that Gecko is a real WebKit alternative. It has improved quite dramatically lately, have you tried Firefox Nightly?

The problem with in its current state as a WebKit alternative is that it lacks stable api.

We don't see any gecko based apps like we see WebKit based apps (electron, etc) because gecko is so tightly developed around Firefox.

Re: Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

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Post by wodenokoto » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 8:50 AM UTC

Pretty cool that changing layout engine doesn't require a restart!

Re: Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

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Post by NiLSPACE » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 8:53 AM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #6

Pretty cool that changing layout engine doesn't require a restart!

It's not the entire layout engine that changes. They only switch to the CSS Style system of Servo: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6p9s24/psa_you_can_tr...

It's still pretty cool though :)

Re: Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

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Post by NiLSPACE » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 8:57 AM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #5

NiLSPACE wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd argue that Gecko is a real WebKit alternative. It has improved quite dramatically lately, have you tried Firefox Nightly?

The problem with in its current state as a WebKit alternative is that it lacks stable api. We don't see any gecko based apps like we see WebKit based apps (electron, etc) because gecko is so tightly developed around Firefox.

True, Gecko lacks a real API for embedding. Servo on the other hand has embedding in mind from the start. There is someone from the Servo team working on it: https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell

Re: Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 9:04 AM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #5

NiLSPACE wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd argue that Gecko is a real WebKit alternative. It has improved quite dramatically lately, have you tried Firefox Nightly?

The problem with in its current state as a WebKit alternative is that it lacks stable api. We don't see any gecko based apps like we see WebKit based apps (electron, etc) because gecko is so tightly developed around Firefox.

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Re: Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

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Post by diegoperini » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 9:31 AM UTC

The proposed flag in about:config exists in Firefox Developer Edition too. I tried to enable it, then loaded some pages. There seems to be no distinction in visuals. Did it work seamlessly or is it currently NOP?