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Standing ovation. This is most welcomed news since Opera's move to WebKit to keep the current browser innovation pace. Coupled with Mozilla's announcement of i

by bmuon 14y ago

Standing ovation. This is most welcomed news since Opera's move to WebKit to keep the current browser innovation pace. Coupled with Mozilla's announcement of its partnership with Samsung to move Servo forward this is great news for the future of the web. Hopefully multi-process/multi-threaded rendering engines will address some of our current performance gripes with the DOM and open the gate for even more complex UIs and interactions.

gsnedders 14y ago
…And Opera is following Chrome to Blink, as new-Opera is built on the Chromium Content API (mentioned below, but seems significant enough to bear repeating).
MatthewPhillips 14y ago
Parallelism is listed as something they are considering, whereas with Servo it's one of the biggest (if not the main) reasons for it existing. From this announcement I can't quite tell what it is with this project that they hope to achieve but I'm sure that will become more clear over time.
- mtgx 14y ago
  I sure hope Google is considering heterogeneous computing, too, and better sooner than later.
zanny 14y ago
I know this sounds bitter, but I read this comment and my interpretation (of the ideology, not how you said it) is: "Our shitty slow and poorly architected mess of document and script languages is too slow for good application performance, everyone, start floundering around looking for some technology to squeeze another inch of performance out of everything so we can maybe hopefully make our awful mess work finally" It is probably my bitterness towards XML, but I feel like the whole "use-a-document-markup-language-as-an-application-builder" is making people do crazy things, and not in a good way - it is happening because html is entrenched, and it is the only truly device-agnostic framework right now. So everyone tries to make it work for everything. I just see it as a sad circumstance is all.

by bmuon 14y ago

gsnedders 14y ago

…And Opera is following Chrome to Blink, as new-Opera is built on the Chromium Content API (mentioned below, but seems significant enough to bear repeating).

MatthewPhillips 14y ago

Parallelism is listed as something they are considering, whereas with Servo it's one of the biggest (if not the main) reasons for it existing. From this announcement I can't quite tell what it is with this project that they hope to achieve but I'm sure that will become more clear over time.

mtgx 14y ago
I sure hope Google is considering heterogeneous computing, too, and better sooner than later.

zanny 14y ago

I know this sounds bitter, but I read this comment and my interpretation (of the ideology, not how you said it) is: "Our shitty slow and poorly architected mess of document and script languages is too slow for good application performance, everyone, start floundering around looking for some technology to squeeze another inch of performance out of everything so we can maybe hopefully make our awful mess work finally" It is probably my bitterness towards XML, but I feel like the whole "use-a-document-markup-language-as-an-application-builder" is making people do crazy things, and not in a good way - it is happening because html is entrenched, and it is the only truly device-agnostic framework right now. So everyone tries to make it work for everything. I just see it as a sad circumstance is all.