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> project is dead That's quite a drastic statement. Maybe the devs find another company that sponsors the development of servo?
by Kelteseth 6y ago
> project is dead
That's quite a drastic statement. Maybe the devs find another company that sponsors the development of servo?
- winter_squirrel 6y agoHow many other companies with the capital to fund such development have a need for a new browser engine and would be willing to fund a team of engineers to work on such an engine vs just using chromium?
- jeswin 6y agoSamsung, LG, many Chinese TV and mobile phone manufacturers etc. Samsung was a contributor to the Servo project, but I'm not sure to what extent they were helping.
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoLG holds the remainder of the Palm WebOS assets, and has been doing decent things with them. So there's at least partially a history of them doing this kind of thing. Maybe there's a slight chance they might have an interest.
- rbanffy 6y agoWebOS used WebKit last time I checked.
- mrec 6y agoMicrosoft might have done. Picking Chromium as the basis for their new Edge a couple of years ago, instead of Mozilla/Servo, was a disappointment at the time and I suspect will look even worse in future retrospectives. MS also seem to have a lot more interest in Rust than Google do.
- TylerE 6y agoYes, picking something that was useable 3 years ago to build a product released 2 years ago instead of an alternative that isn't close to being done NOW was surely a massive strategic miscalculation.
- mrec 6y agoBy "Mozilla/Servo" I meant "the Mozilla Firefox codebase along with Servo as its research testbed", not just Servo itself (which AFAIK was never intended to be a generally-shippable browser). Could have been clearer, yes.
- umanwizard 6y agoI guess anything is possible, but why would anyone other than Mozilla want to develop Servo?
- DJHenk 6y agoI think any big company who does not like Google's dominance on the web would want to do that. The reason they all switch to a chromium engine is not that they don't care, it's because it was too hard/expensive to develop their own engine. If Servo has any potential in that sense, I don't see why a company like Microsoft would not want to contribute to that.
- brianush1 6y agoMicrosoft has made two working browser engines: Trident and EdgeHTML. They've killed both in favor of Chromium; I don't see how it would cost them less to develop Servo than to have kept working on EdgeHTML.
- Ericson2314 6y agoI said at the time that Microsoft should have stepped into to sponsor Firefox, and make a firefox-based IE. Surely between the two of them Chrome could get some better competition.
- gsnedders 6y agoEdgeHTML was a fork of Trident, as much as they liked to trumpet it as a new chapter. A fair bit did change, but it was far from a new browser engine. (Much longer ago, they were also responsible for Tasman.)
- lovelearning 6y agoI think MS thinks very differently. Some months ago, one of their PMs said: "It's time for @mozilla to get down from their philosophical ivory tower. The web is dominated by Chromium, if they really 'cared' about the web, they would be contributing instead of building a parallel universe that's used by less than five percent?" [1] [1] : https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-guy-mozilla-should-give-up-on-firefox-and-go-with-chromium-too/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-guy-mozilla-should-g...