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Servo to Advance in 2023

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Re: Servo to Advance in 2023

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Post by dmix »

Vinnl wrote: post #3

Looks like the external funding at least consists of Igalia dedicating four people: https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/

From their wikipedia:

> Igalia is a major contributor to each of the major Web engines (Blink, Gecko/Servo and WebKit). In 2019 they were the #2 committers to both the WebKit and Chromium codebases and in the top 10 contributors to Gecko/Servo. Igalia has helped the interoperability of some features across web engines; they implemented CSS Grid Layout in WebKit and Blink. They are maintainers for several areas of the Chromium codebase, such as CSS Grid Layout, MathML, Ozone-Wayland and MathML in Chromium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igalia

Re: Servo to Advance in 2023

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Post by WastingMyTime89 »

It’s shame Mozilla gimped Servo by shackling it to Gecko for political reasons and giving it utterly stupid priorities like VR. Some of the ideas put forward were great. It was really inspiring to see that such a cool R&D project was possible in a space as uncompetitive as web browsers.

Re: Servo to Advance in 2023

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Post by mariusor »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #5

It’s shame Mozilla gimped Servo by shackling it to Gecko for political reasons and giving it utterly stupid priorities like VR. Some of the ideas put forward were great. It was really inspiring to see that such a cool R&D project was possible in a space as uncompetitive as web browsers.

I wish the first priority for the project would be to make it easy to integrate into other applications, instead of building a full fledged browser. To break the monopoly of WebKit/Blink browsers we need a competing rendering engine that is being developed outside the Google/Alphabet umbrella.

Re: Servo to Advance in 2023

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Post by mouse_ »

_zllx wrote: post #2

Excited to see the renewed interest in Servo. Another new web engine that is coming along nicely is SerenityOS LibWeb: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...

First new browser engine to pass acid3 test since the test was invented. Nice. Hopefully this will turn into something end users can benefit from. I'd love to see done to Chrome what WireGuard did to OpenVPN.

Re: Servo to Advance in 2023

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Post by d12bb »

revskill wrote: post #7

Is there any tool in Rust that allows auto import module based on usage ? A VSCode extension is perfect.

Rust Analyzer can add `use` statements on confirming completion and clippy will complain/remove unused ones, if that's what you want.

Re: Servo to Advance in 2023

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Post by guerrilla »

dmix wrote: post #4
Vinnl wrote: post #3

Looks like the external funding at least consists of Igalia dedicating four people: https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/

From their wikipedia: > Igalia is a major contributor to each of the major Web engines (Blink, Gecko/Servo and WebKit). In 2019 they were the #2 committers to both the WebKit and Chromium codebases and in the top 10 contributors to Gecko/Servo. Igalia has helped the interoperability of some features across web engines; they implemented CSS Grid Layout in WebKit and Blink. They are maintainers for several areas of the…

Not only that but they're a worker-owned cooperative. This is all very impressive.

> Igalia is a private, worker-owned, employee-run cooperative model consultancy focused on open source software. Based in A Coruña, Galicia (Spain), Igalia is known for its contributions and commitments to both open-source and open standards. Igalia's primary focus is on open source solutions for a large set of hardware and software platforms centering on browsers, graphics, multimedia, compilers, device drivers, virtualization, embedded Linux, and device drivers.[2][3]

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