Let's build another web browser based on Servo!
Building a browser using Servo as a web engine! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
https://servo.org/blog/2024/09/11/building-browser/
https://servo.org/blog/2024/09/11/building-browser/
Let's build another web browser based on Servo!
14 Comments
praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 1y
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl · 3 pts · 1y
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 · -3 pts · 1y
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 · 12 pts · 1y
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 · 13 pts · 1y
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 · 6 pts · 1y
Because they wasted 5 people's time on it instead of pulling in the first pr
geography082@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Agree
lung@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
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 · 5 pts · 1y
It was the project that helped develop rust into what it is today.
foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
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...
MisterD@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
Where do they get the money for doing this?
brian@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y
the linux foundation
ms_lane@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y
Servo: The dead software that is trying to invent new reasons to exist after it was excised from Firefox!
leanleft@lemmy.ml · -7 pts · 1y
https://ultralig.ht
kosmoz@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Cool but seems very unrelated?