I've been following the development of Servo for several years. Unfortunately it's still is at a very early stage. Some of the most basic sites are rendered incorrectly, not rendered at all, or result in freezes and crashes.<p>Shows how bloated modern web is and how hard it is to write a browser engine. Really sad state of affairs.
I like the pointlessly-recursive screenshot. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect</a>
Is it easily embeddable yet?
I’ve tried several times over the last years to use it instead of WebKitGTK, I’ve tried both servo-embedding-example [1] and servo-shell [2] and they were a pain to set up. I can compile servo and make it load a URL, but that’s it.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example</a>
[2] <a href="https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell</a><p>I also tried the examples in the WebRender crate, several times, and I never get any kind of text rendered, just rectangles. Due to lacking documentation I’m not sure whether I should be seeing text or not, but drawing rectangles is something I can do on my own with OpenGL or heck, even poking [64] the pixels myself!<p>[64] I first learned about computer graphics with my Commodore 64.<p>This is on Ubuntu with Intel integrated graphics (i7-4650U), which I guess might not be supported. Is that documented somewhere?<p>Anyhow, every time I try again I end up wasting several hours, so I’m still using WebKit for my application prototypes. Some of my use cases do not require a full browser engine (thus trying out WebRender), the most important part is text layout and I’m very interested in using Pathfinder [3], hopefully from a higher-level API like libservo or WebRender.<p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/servo/pathfinder" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/servo/pathfinder</a>
This project features one of the best open source logos: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Servo_logo.png" rel="nofollow">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Servo_logo.pn...</a>
Just downloaded the MacOS build (44Mb) from <a href="https://download.servo.org/" rel="nofollow">https://download.servo.org/</a>
but can't even start it:
"no mountable file system"!
What is going on?
I think this explains it better:
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(software)" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(software)</a>
Forgive my webdev nievete, but what exactly is a Browser Engine, and how is it different from a browser? Is this like selenium? What's the use-case? Why is parallelism important in this context?