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Okay. But what's a servo?

by RobotCaleb 12y ago

yurymik 12y ago
Web browser written in Rust
- frewsxcv 12y ago
  It's actually just the renderer. If you want to run it in a browser like environment, check out https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell
  - kuschku 12y ago
    And that’s where we come full loop – with servo-shell being just like firefox’ XUL-based UI
gear54rus 12y ago
Browser engine in Rust. Project home: https://github.com/servo/servo https://github.com/servo/servo
simcop2387 12y ago
Mozilla's experimental rendering engine, written entirely from scratch to avoid a lot of the problems that Gecko and other engines have because of their age. Along with that they're experimenting with parallelized layout and other things to get better efficiency and performance.
- theandrewbailey 12y ago
  Mozilla is (planning on) using it for FirefoxOS. They have no plans to do so, but I'd be happy seeing it in desktop Firefox. edit: planning on
  - muizelaar 12y ago
    FirefoxOS uses Gecko like desktop.
    - theandrewbailey 12y ago
      I spoke too soon. They are planning and working on it. http://blog.servo.org/2015/02/24/twis-25/ http://blog.servo.org/2015/02/24/twis-25/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-servo-mozillas-next-gen-browser-engine-for-tomorrows-multicore-processors/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collabo... https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap
  - simcop2387 12y ago
    Yea once it's gotten to where it's stablish and can render most websites I'm really wondering how hard it'd be to start making it work on the desktop as a replacement. I know there's the whole XUL issue but I'm betting that's solvable since they don't have XUL on mobile/firefox OS either.
tormeh 12y ago
A small electric engine, I believe. In this case probably a play on how we call web renderers "browser engines". Servo is Mozilla's next-gen browser engine.
- Manishearth 12y ago
  The name actually comes from Tom Servo from MST3K (whose name in turn probably comes from the motor)

Okay. But what's a servo?

yurymik 12y ago

Web browser written in Rust

frewsxcv 12y ago
It's actually just the renderer. If you want to run it in a browser like environment, check out https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell
- kuschku 12y ago
  And that’s where we come full loop – with servo-shell being just like firefox’ XUL-based UI

gear54rus 12y ago

Browser engine in Rust. Project home: https://github.com/servo/servo https://github.com/servo/servo

simcop2387 12y ago

Mozilla's experimental rendering engine, written entirely from scratch to avoid a lot of the problems that Gecko and other engines have because of their age. Along with that they're experimenting with parallelized layout and other things to get better efficiency and performance.

theandrewbailey 12y ago
Mozilla is (planning on) using it for FirefoxOS. They have no plans to do so, but I'd be happy seeing it in desktop Firefox. edit: planning on
- muizelaar 12y ago
  FirefoxOS uses Gecko like desktop.
  - theandrewbailey 12y ago
    I spoke too soon. They are planning and working on it. http://blog.servo.org/2015/02/24/twis-25/ http://blog.servo.org/2015/02/24/twis-25/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-servo-mozillas-next-gen-browser-engine-for-tomorrows-multicore-processors/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collabo... https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap
- simcop2387 12y ago
  Yea once it's gotten to where it's stablish and can render most websites I'm really wondering how hard it'd be to start making it work on the desktop as a replacement. I know there's the whole XUL issue but I'm betting that's solvable since they don't have XUL on mobile/firefox OS either.

tormeh 12y ago

A small electric engine, I believe. In this case probably a play on how we call web renderers "browser engines". Servo is Mozilla's next-gen browser engine.

Manishearth 12y ago
The name actually comes from Tom Servo from MST3K (whose name in turn probably comes from the motor)