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Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by throwaway894345 »

hypeatei wrote: post #29
spankalee wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The newest Reddit - not the React version, but the Lit version that's replacing it - uses very, very modern HTML and JavaScript. I'd love to see Servo get to the point of rendering it correctly!

Pretty amazing how a company can overengineer a basic feed that displays images and text (and ads). New Reddit is a dumpster fire, can't imagine another rewrite is going to fix it.

Yeah, one of the weirder things is that if someone blocks you, you are not allowed to reply to any comment in the thread (for example, if someone posts a toplevel comment and doesn’t reply to anything, and you reply to some comment a dozen layers below and have an exchange with some third party, if the toplevel commenter blocks you, you can’t reply to anything including comments left by others in response to your own comment) and you get a generic “internal server error”-type pop up with no information about why the request failed.

This is most likely a server “feature” and thus a rewrite of the frontend won’t fix it but it seems like at very least the frontend could display a sane error message (assuming the backend forwards some information about the cause of the error).

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by amelius »

ksec wrote: post #5

So we will, in ~5 years time have two new browser, one in Rust and one in Swift. I hope in the process of doing it we will find new ways of doing things.

The problem with these smaller webbrowsers is that you have nobody to sue if the browser turns out to leak your personal information or credentials etc. Therefore it is better to stick with browsers made by big corporations.

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by CryZe »

StrauXX wrote: post #37
satvikpendem wrote: post #28

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How many times are they going to rewrite the site? And how can you see the Lit versus React version, is there another link for it?

There is old.reddit.com, reddit.com and new.reddit.com. new.reddit.com is not the same site as reddit.com!

new.reddit.com seems to be an older layout than just reddit.com for me, one where most stuff still works (like video embeds).

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by nbbaier »

ChocolateGod wrote: post #21
ksec wrote: post #5

So we will, in ~5 years time have two new browser, one in Rust and one in Swift. I hope in the process of doing it we will find new ways of doing things.

I'd like to see Swift adopted more on non-Apple operating systems, some of the recent GTK apps written in Swift are pretty cool.

What apps are you thinking of? Curious to check them out.

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by spankalee »

satvikpendem wrote: post #28
spankalee wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The newest Reddit - not the React version, but the Lit version that's replacing it - uses very, very modern HTML and JavaScript. I'd love to see Servo get to the point of rendering it correctly!

How many times are they going to rewrite the site? And how can you see the Lit versus React version, is there another link for it?

Most pages, logged-in and logged-out, seem to be using the Lit version for me. I don't think it contained many visual changes, so you have to look for the presence of web components.
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