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Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :) It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so w…

It seems the linux build doesn't respect the system keyboard settings. I'm not able to write scandinavian characters äöå at all... Happy to see a nightly already, I must read the source at some point :)

https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/11950 , should get fixed in a few days

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

#45
post #32
post #2

Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :) It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so w…

It seems the linux build doesn't respect the system keyboard settings. I'm not able to write scandinavian characters äöå at all... Happy to see a nightly already, I must read the source at some point :)

This is PR #11950: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/11950

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The last few releases of OSX don't allow you to launch unsigned binaries without specifically disabling the check. In the latest Sierra beta I've heard you can't disable the check without an involved workaround. It's just OSX users being lazy ;)

Huh. I've only recently started using OSX, and I've had codesign issues when using self-compiled debuggers, but not when using things like servo. Can it be signed by any old cert or does it need to be part of the trust chain?

Debuggers are special--the OS won't let unsigned binaries control other processes, no matter how they came to exist on your system.

Outside of that, Gatekeeper applies to executables fetched from the Web, can be disabled (harder on Sierra), and is easy enough to bypass--and you only have to do it once per executable. If signed, the certificate does need to be trusted to count--otherwise, it'd just be a fancy checksum.

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Happy to answer questions (when I wake up; getting this ready has been a lot of work, needless to say) :) It goes without saying, but as this is the very first nightly (not by any means a full-fledged release), expect severe bugs, crashes, and missing functionality. Many of your favorite sites will be broken. Don't expect to use this as your everyday browser. We'd love feedback on what issues folks hit the most, so w…

Kudos on reaching milestone.

Can't wait to try it out. When is the Windows build will be available? Days? Week(s)?

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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It's already more nice than what I expected.

Some really minor bugs that occurred while using it a bit (OS X 10.11):

- Scrolling when already at the end of the page sometimes makes a relatively big instant step (noticed this for instance on the hackernews startpage)

- The tabs aren't cropped in tab view: http://imgur.com/Q1Bxibo

- Tabs don't keep at which point you have scrolled when switching tabs

- After opening the address bar and clicking on the website again there's a short flicker.

Re: Servo Nightly Builds Available

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Is there an article somewhere comparing how Servo and Chromium threaded compositing differ? I guess there is some work on Chromium side to render pages using multiple threads, but I couldn't find more information and how it compares to Servo's mechanism.
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