Re:What's the future of Servo?
by dthul on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:11AM
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Someone on Twitter mentioned Servo's "Layout 2020" project which would have ensured that Firefox's layout engine stays competitive: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Layout-2020
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Re:What's the future of Servo?
by Brakenshire on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:46PM
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A parallel layout engine would be a hugely important change for the web. Would mean the possibility of changing or animating layout relevant properties (which is almost all of them) without recalculating the entire page. This is the most important limitation for web UIs.