How I imagine this browser engine works.
Oh God please let something related to it be called crow
Can’t wait for the year of the servo!
Another competitor web engine is Ladybird. You might want to take a look at that as well.
Nice, I’ll add that to the to-do list.
All will be rust!
Firefox is already made in rust though.only sorts it seems. They were founding members though that’s the part I remembered.Only partly it seems?
Yeah, some Rust code from Servo was integrated a few years ago as the article explains, mainly the CSS engine.
Well Mozilla was a founding member of the Rust foundation. They’re just not a platinum member.
Graydon Hoare was working at Mozilla when he created Rust
Nah, only parts of it
Ay idea when will it be ready for daily use?
how long is a piece of string?
sorry. browsers are insanely complex pieces of software. like, operating system level. the standard has grown enough that the web is it’s own platform. so your definition of “daily use” is what is important; servo can open web pages, render html and css, and store cookies. it can also do some javascript. that’s enough to deal with like 80% of all websites ever written… but not the ones non-technical people use like facebook and twitter.
there’s also the matter of what features you actually require: tabs were not a standard feature for the first fifteen or so years of the web. search in the url bar was seen as an antipattern at first and wasn’t included. credential storage (like password autofill) wasn’t added until like 20 years in.
like, operating system level. the standard has grown enough that the web is it’s own platform.
Which is why I hate it. It both muddies and replaces the real (hypertext linked documents available globally) web and by itself is more complex than it needs to be, and inconvenient for screen readers, robots, Braille terminals and such.
For cross-platform applications server over Web - Java Web Start was a good idea, just far too early introduced and it was slow. And it should be run in a sandbox.
I’m serious, that’s exactly what Java is intended for, designed, not evolved. From the beginning. Evolution is good when it’s been many thousands of years and you reap the results. Evolution is not good for something that’s engineered. A wooden bridge unattended “evolves” towards falling apart, despite all the moss covering it making it seem firmer.
search in the url bar was seen as an antipattern at first and wasn’t included.
It still is an antipattern. Guessing machines are not good.
how long is a piece of string?
Twelvety.
Pfft, that’s nothing! My strings is twelvety three
Not yet but at least it can display something!! I always read that it was a monumental effort to build one and now we have something.
Ok then
