Building a browser using Servo as a web engine! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine (servo.org)
from 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io to technology@lemmy.ml on 13 Sep 2024 14:13
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Let’s build another web browser based on Servo!

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[deleted] on 13 Sep 2024 14:53 next collapse

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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl on 13 Sep 2024 15:55 collapse

Andreas Kling wrote a lot of Ladybird himself. It’s not finished yet, and it’s turned into a big community project with full time employees now, but with some experience building browsers, the modern spec evidently makes it quite a reasonable task to build a web engine. There are a lot of IDL files and whatnot to parse and process documents and the rendering algorithms are almost all laid out in the spec these days.

I tried Servo last month and I must say that after what I’ve seen Ladybird do, I was kind of disappointed. I don’t think release is very close based on the problems I’ve encountered.

socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 13 Sep 2024 19:24 collapse

yeah but ladybird devs care more about enforcing male centric pronouns than spending all of like 5 minutes changing him to they after many people requested it.

skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl on 13 Sep 2024 20:01 collapse

I don’t really see what that has to do with the feasibility of writing a new browser engine or the development status of either browser engine, but yeah, it was pretty silly of him to get dragged into an argument over that.

socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 13 Sep 2024 20:23 next collapse

I don’t see how insisting on having male pronouns has to do with the feasibility of a browser engine or the development status of it either, but here we are.

iopq@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 2024 20:50 next collapse

Because they wasted 5 people’s time on it instead of pulling in the first pr

geography082@lemm.ee on 15 Sep 2024 06:21 collapse

Agree

lung@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 2024 14:59 next collapse

Huh wow this has been going for a decade, uses Rust, and is run by the Linux Foundation now? That’s all very hype - seems like they need another couple years, but there is hope! I’m impressed

Flipper@feddit.org on 14 Sep 2024 09:34 collapse

It was the project that helped develop rust into what it is today.

leanleft@lemmy.ml on 13 Sep 2024 22:35 next collapse

ultralig.ht

kosmoz@lemm.ee on 14 Sep 2024 09:14 collapse

Cool but seems very unrelated?

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 2024 01:03 next collapse

Servo: The dead software that is trying to invent new reasons to exist after it was excised from Firefox!

MisterD@lemmy.ca on 15 Sep 2024 02:16 next collapse

Where do they get the money for doing this?

brian@programming.dev on 15 Sep 2024 02:39 collapse

the linux foundation

foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml on 15 Sep 2024 15:09 collapse

We need to go back to the early web, we need to have a more useful than fancy web. Have a lot of browser to choose from, pages will load faster, be more lightweight and less trackers. I’m talking of a web with less JS…