> and had the potential to decide whether the "open web" will still be a thing 10 years from now. Not even close, but it's nice wishful thinking. The last thin

> and had the potential to decide whether the "open web" will still be a thing 10 years from now. Not even close, but it's nice wishful thinking. The last thing that is holding back the tide of a Chrome-only web at this point is, ironically, Safari, especially since it is forced on iOS platforms. And you have people on this website and many others who actively want that to go away for various reasons! But Servo was never going to create the kind of platform leverage necessary to determine the future of "an open web" in any way like that, unless you think Google or Apple was going to adopt it. They weren't -- even ignoring the politics, multiple implementations are part of the deal with the Web, so for Google and Apple leveraging their existing verticals helps make the pill easier to swallow. The only viable alternative outcome, which is "Servo wholesale replaces parts of Gecko", would have left Mozilla in more or less the same spot they're in right now, with some shored up technical polish. That doesn't change anything in the grand scheme, though, no matter how much people here want to think otherwise. They would have remained where they are and continued to be just as marginal as you think they are now -- or whatever you think now, it would have been just as true. People on here constantly cry about Mozilla because they have their bizarre weird bones to pick (social justice blah blah, taking away unsigned extensions is a war crime, version number inflation -- it's all the same stupid forum bullshit that existed on Slashdot in 2004), whatever, but it doesn't really matter. The reality is nothing Mozilla has done in the past 15 years mattered as much as Google aggressively pushing Chrome did, by leveraging their existing moat on the web. Google might even pay for that in court at some point down the line, but as it stands right now, Mozilla could have funded 10 Servo-like projects and done everything every Hacker News poster wanted, and it wouldn't have made even the slightest change in this outcome. That said, Servo is still a very welcome project for many other reasons, so I'm glad to see it being picked back up. But don't kid yourself. Some technical spit-shine was never going to be the deciding keystone of the "open web" and its politics. That's just putting the cart before the horse.