Servo’s new home

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Post by g0xA52A2A » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 4:04 PM UTC

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Post by lastontheboat » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 4:09 PM UTC

We've been cagey about this over the months since the Servo team at Mozilla was disbanded, since there were various moving pieces that needed to fall into place. We're excited about the possibility for Servo to continue growing and evolving in its new home, though!

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Post by MrAlex94 » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 4:13 PM UTC

This is great news! Really nice to see another browser engine out there being developed. Hope to be able to use this in a project one day in the future and all the best to the team - quite a feat how far Servo has come in supporting web standards in such a short span of time (comparatively).

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Post by emteycz » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 4:13 PM UTC

Awesome news! The world needs another prominent browser engine that browser vendors would want to use, and detaching Servo from Mozilla makes it better positioned for that task IMHO. I'm also very happy that work on Webrender continues. I love what you're doing guys!

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Post by SimonSapin » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 4:17 PM UTC

emteycz wrote: post #4

Awesome news! The world needs another prominent browser engine that browser vendors would want to use, and detaching Servo from Mozilla makes it better positioned for that task IMHO. I'm also very happy that work on Webrender continues. I love what you're doing guys!

For what it’s worth, these days WebRender is mostly being worked on by the Firefox graphics team at Mozilla.

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Post by LockAndLol » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 4:18 PM UTC

emteycz wrote: post #4

Awesome news! The world needs another prominent browser engine that browser vendors would want to use, and detaching Servo from Mozilla makes it better positioned for that task IMHO. I'm also very happy that work on Webrender continues. I love what you're doing guys!

Should we start calling it Servo by Linux now?

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Post by techwizrd » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 4:19 PM UTC

This is fantastic news. Servo has been doing exciting work, and it was disappointing to hear that Mozilla had disbanded the Servo team. I'm really excited to see where this will go. Will improvements from Servo continue to make their way down into Firefox?

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Post by CodesInChaos » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 4:21 PM UTC

How many paid developers will it have now, and how many did it have at Mozilla?

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Post by erickt » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 4:21 PM UTC

lastontheboat wrote: post #2

We've been cagey about this over the months since the Servo team at Mozilla was disbanded, since there were various moving pieces that needed to fall into place. We're excited about the possibility for Servo to continue growing and evolving in its new home, though!

This is great news! I'm glad Servo found a place to land. Are you planning on sticking with the MPL-2.0 license, or are you also considering relicensing as well?

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Post by devit » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 4:21 PM UTC

How about making a browser in addition to a "rendering engine for embedding in other applications", in the form of a standalone program and/or a Firefox (desktop and mobile) fork that can use Servo as well as Gecko?

You could also go for the more ambitious plan of creating a brand that can take over Mozilla as a "trusted browser maker", which seems feasible given the falling reputation of Mozilla and the technical security advantages of Servo.