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Building and using Servo as a library has been a huge pain. I've been waiting for improvements since https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell https://github.com

Building and using Servo as a library has been a huge pain. I've been waiting for improvements since https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell was abandoned

AlbertoGP 7y ago
Same here, I thought it would have been ready for that long ago as they touted embeddability as a prominent goal, but every few months I try again, and have to give up again. So far I’m using WebKit while I wait for libservo to be ready. The article however is a very good explanation (as far as I can tell) of how the SpiderMonkey Javascript interpreter is linked to Servo. What I need in the first place is the layout and rendering engine, but hopefully this article will be useful for me in the future.
- edko 7y ago
  I've started using the web-view project (https://github.com/Boscop/web-view https://github.com/Boscop/web-view), with good results. Instead of embedding a browser, it uses the system's webview (Safari on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and Edge on Windows 10).
- polyglotfacto 7y ago
  I personally haven't much work on embedding Servo, however I do think there has been some progress the last few years, Servo is being embedded in a Hololens applications(see https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/hololens https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/hololens), as well as a Magicleap application(see https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/magicleap https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/magicleap). The embedding API used can be found at https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/ports/libsimpleservo https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/ports/libsimplese... I think it's a pretty low-level embedding API, so perhaps not comparable with embedding Webkit(I have no experience with that either), it does seem to do the trick.
  - jakearmitage 7y ago
    The problem with libsimpleservo is that it only supports one view.

Building and using Servo as a library has been a huge pain. I've been waiting for improvements since https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell was abandoned

AlbertoGP 7y ago

Same here, I thought it would have been ready for that long ago as they touted embeddability as a prominent goal, but every few months I try again, and have to give up again. So far I’m using WebKit while I wait for libservo to be ready. The article however is a very good explanation (as far as I can tell) of how the SpiderMonkey Javascript interpreter is linked to Servo. What I need in the first place is the layout and rendering engine, but hopefully this article will be useful for me in the future.

edko 7y ago
I've started using the web-view project (https://github.com/Boscop/web-view https://github.com/Boscop/web-view), with good results. Instead of embedding a browser, it uses the system's webview (Safari on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and Edge on Windows 10).
polyglotfacto 7y ago
I personally haven't much work on embedding Servo, however I do think there has been some progress the last few years, Servo is being embedded in a Hololens applications(see https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/hololens https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/hololens), as well as a Magicleap application(see https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/magicleap https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/magicleap). The embedding API used can be found at https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/ports/libsimpleservo https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/ports/libsimplese... I think it's a pretty low-level embedding API, so perhaps not comparable with embedding Webkit(I have no experience with that either), it does seem to do the trick.
- jakearmitage 7y ago
  The problem with libsimpleservo is that it only supports one view.