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Not nearly complete enough if you want a browser. MAYBE, if you want a browsing engine / "webview".
by kroltan 5y ago
Not nearly complete enough if you want a browser.
MAYBE, if you want a browsing engine / "webview".
- zamadatix 5y agoThat's exactly what Servo was/is, an embeddable browser engine. It was never aiming to build a usable reference servo browser with the engine. The packaged nightly binaries were just to demo the current state of the embeddable engine which is why they were so barebones.
- kroltan 5y agoYes, you're correct, but the ancestor comments kind of implied it being a hope for browsers at large. Bad phrasing from my part too, sorry.
- tomxor 5y agoAhh, i'm talking about the surviving parts that were adopted by Firefox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software)#Quantum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software)#Quantum I remember it clearly because Firefox got a big performance boost in it's renderer when quantum was released, often it's faster than Chrome.
- simfoo 5y agoWhat features would a browser need on top of regular webview APIs?