News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Browser diversity starts with us. Parent comment

Re:Browser diversity starts with us by bgarbiak on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:38AM (#19076239)
It's obviously a matter of money, politics, and things beyond my imagination but I can't understand why Firefox didn't double down on Servo (and friends) for mobiles.

At one point there was talk about Samsung being a partner and Firefox/Servo becoming the default browser on the Samsung phones. Which would make a perfect sense, since every non-Apple phone gets its performance from multi-core SoC, and Firefox would be the only browser taking advantage of that. Now, after Google getting their hands slapped by the UE regulators, this Samsung/Firefox marriage could be even more fruitful. And yet, the Servo team got assigned to some pointless VR experiments, and it turned out Android was never a priority. Again: I can't understand why, oh, why.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Browser diversity starts with us by PrototypeNM1 on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:22PM (#19078286)
Servo was a test bed, a place to experiment with new technologies on a minimalist browser. The successful underlying technology was/is being moved into Firefox (desktop and mobile).

There's also a new (I think?) mobile browser in progress. I'm not sure how it fits into the larger picture and information is a bit scarce, they just started releasing beta builds.

[ Parent | on HN ]