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With Gecko ? It's their original engine. You probably mean Servo (the experimental Rust engine).
by mercurial 9y ago
With Gecko ? It's their original engine. You probably mean Servo (the experimental Rust engine).
- erikbye 9y agoI guess it's not wrong to call it their original engine, just remember it's a two-decades-old development that started at Netscape.
- gsnedders 9y agoWell, arguably started at DigitalStyle.
- robin_reala 9y agoCan you expand? I thought I had a good grasp of Mozilla’s history but this is the first time I’ve heard of them.
- dev_tty01 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalStyle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalStyle
- gsnedders 9y agoSo my understanding is following Netscape's acquisition of DigitalStyle, the decision was made to replace Netscape's existing layout engine with something based on what DigitalStyle had in their editor (which, unlike Netscape's existing one, supported things like reflow), and it was this combination that was open-sourced. Notably, it was only really the layout engine that was replaced: the HTML parser and the JS VM survived unchanged, hence the name NGLayout for what became Gecko.