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Not at the moment. Help is welcome: https://servo.org/#support-and-donations :)
Does being part of the Linux Foundation mean financial support?
Planning to do exactly that tonight.
I'm one of those who stopped donating to Mozilla once I realized none of the money donated could ever be used for developing the browser.
If anybody else thought like me tonight might be a good time to prove we were principled, not cheap.
Edit: one more thing. Hopefully at some time we can now recreate Firefox with a new name, a new engine and a new, safe but also complete extension API that allows us to recreate what we've lost over the last few years.
Edit2: done.
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Why is Mozilla not betting on Rust anymore?
Mozilla has decided to move to a different mission less about improving the web and more about enacting things that make them money, so they can continue to pay a large CEO salary and push policy objectives against free speech. Unfortunately Mozilla seemed to go from "awesome" to really disappointing in a very short time window.
Sure, I’ll buy that.
> push policy objectives against free speech
Can people please stop this latent homophobia? Mozilla fired a person who donated money to a deplorable cause. You can try to hide behind free speech, but we all know what this is about.
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Mozilla has decided to move to a different mission less about improving the web and more about enacting things that make them money, so they can continue to pay a large CEO salary and push policy objectives against free speech. Unfortunately Mozilla seemed to go from "awesome" to really disappointing in a very short time window.
Wow, that is a hugely loaded statement. Even if it is 100% true, the level of derision and bias should make any person not familiar with the situation question everything you say. If you're going to be that biased, at least back it up. And by back it up, I mean at LEAST throwing in some statements of fact, if not URLs.
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This is also my concern. Everyone's cheering on, but I'm just thinking... What's the mission and end goal now? Previously it was doing research, with the possibility of landing in Firefox. Now that's highly unlikely.
Is it really so unlikely? Firefox integrates all kinds of components from elsewhere; why shouldn't it continue adopting parts of Servo where appropriate?
It's one thing for a mozilla team member to say "Hey, let's pull the servo css layout engine into firefox" It's a whole different thing for someone to say "Hey, let's pull the webkit css layout engine into firefox".
The servo stuff, while for experimentation, was ultimately geared towards the notion of landing parts of it into firefox. It was built for that. Under an opensource foundation maintainer model, there's a strong possibility that it moves from that as a goal.
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Mozilla has decided to move to a different mission less about improving the web and more about enacting things that make them money, so they can continue to pay a large CEO salary and push policy objectives against free speech. Unfortunately Mozilla seemed to go from "awesome" to really disappointing in a very short time window.
Wow, that is a hugely loaded statement. Even if it is 100% true, the level of derision and bias should make any person not familiar with the situation question everything you say. If you're going to be that biased, at least back it up. And by back it up, I mean at LEAST throwing in some statements of fact, if not URLs.
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I'd guess many Electron users don't care about the node.js parts at all, they simply choose electron because it's more popular than the alternatives like CEF.
Node has done a lot of work in defining a runtime outside of the browser. I'm guessing much of this work would need to be done with spidermonkey in order to match common functionality. It'd also help out an electron equivalent for gecko, too.
My ideal model would be having one piece of trusted javascript which works similar to web extensions which can control the window, trigger navigations, approve or deny permission requests by origins and can interact with the current web control. Any advanced integration with the host operating system would happen though the local webserver (which could be implemented in node.js if that's your thing, or in C#, Rust...). This would not require many changes to a browser runtime.
With the growing concern about browser monopoly and engine monopoly going against everything the web was intended to be, are you planning on acquiring funding from government grants? EU at least used to give out money to interesting projects, is there hope for servo to get some?
On the face of it, this sounds great! I hope it leads to bold new things. It also produces an interesting coherence: Google + MS -> Blink Apple -> Webkit Linux -> Servo All the main OSs now have their own web rendering engine. The 00s saw anti-trust against MS for this practice (ok, for the rigid way MS forced their engine onto their users)... but today the market has coalesced around the same core idea, cementing th…
I thought the biggest draw to Electron was that it was a single stable platform that worked and looked the same everywhere.
I feel like (based on that) any attempts to move to OS bundled web engines would completely miss the point of why Electron is popular.