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PhantomJS is based on WebKit, which is a commonly used HTML rendering engine, using Servo in PhantomJS will only make sense once Servo has double digit market s
by ZenoArrow 11y ago
PhantomJS is based on WebKit, which is a commonly used HTML rendering engine, using Servo in PhantomJS will only make sense once Servo has double digit market share. Selenium isn't a browser engine, so not sure how Servo could replace it.
- sandstrom 11y agoI don't think its a terrible idea. There has been talk in PhantomJS on making multiple engines available. It's the 11th most commented issue[1], out of 1k+ issues. Sometimes a broadly used browser-engine is important, but other things servo could be useful. One issue with PhantomJS (on webkit) is that it crashes quite frequently and use a lot of memory[2], areas where Servo may do better. [1] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/10209 https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/10209 [2] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+memory https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=i...