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.
If its any consolation Mozilla will never threaten the browser engine that is used by the company that provides the lion's share of its income, just saying.
Servo to Advance in 2023
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Technically Mozilla incomes come from being a foil to Google for an hypothetical antitrust probe. At this point both Gecko and Firefox are utterly irrelevant.
Re: Servo to Advance in 2023
#52I know it's not related to the rendering engine, but I really hope side-effort is expended on marrying Firefox to the Chrome Embedded Framework (CEF). This is a major roadblock to getting Firefox in more embedded, webview, and in-game spaces.
(My naive understanding)
Re: Servo to Advance in 2023
#53It’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.
One of Igalia's, the team funding this new Servo development, projects is Servo-based Wolvic[1] which is a continuation of the Firefox VR project: >A few months ago, we announced we would be taking over stewardship of what was then the Firefox Reality project, spinning off a new browser based on Reality’s foundations that would follow its own evolutionary path: Wolvic. [1] https://www.igalia.com/2022/07/08/Wolvic-1.0…
Wolvic uses Gecko.