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If anything, Servo has shown that nobody needs to rewrite an entire engine for improving the state of the art. Servo is modular and can integrate it's style eng
by The_rationalist 7y ago
If anything, Servo has shown that nobody needs to rewrite an entire engine for improving the state of the art.
Servo is modular and can integrate it's style engine or it's layout engine or it's rendering engine into other engines. Btw it use Firefox spidermonkey for js.
If mozilla wanted to bring a new inovative layout/anything module into chromium they just could, but they don't want to improve chromium, sadly.
Reinventing the wheel with totally redundant pieces is not a goal. Mozilla should focus on reinventing the critical pieces of chromium and only them.
They fail to understand their real utility and statistically become inexistant thus their funding too.
If only there was debuggers for brains of decision makers, the world would be in much better shape.
- bobajeff 7y agoThat's actually a very good point. If Mozilla used Chromium as a base they would be free to invest all their manpower into Servo development. Then again they would have to work pretty closely with Google on integrating Servo with Chromium. Otherwise they'll get into the situation that Google did with apple over Webkit and then they be at square minus one with a foreign codebase.