Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by azakai on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:30PM
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> The Mozilla team didn’t intend Servo to be a fully functional new browser.
This is not accurate. Some parts of Mozilla thought that way, other parts didn't. And thoughts changed over time. For years Servo was officially an experiment, with many possible futures.
Had it succeeded in rendering the modern Web well enough, I think it could have become a fully functional new browser. Sadly, that didn't happen.
(source: I was at Mozilla at the time, and adjacent to the Servo people, who I talked to a lot)
Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by JBits on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:43PM
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Have all innovative parts of Servo been incorporated into Firefox now? Or are there some modern GPU based implementations or something like that which give it the potential to be faster than Firefox?
The Mozilla team didn’t intend Servo to be a fully functional new browser. The project was amazing as a Rust-only implementation of the basics of a browser. But ultimately, the utility of Servo was that it served as a place to rewrite modules into Rust for use in Firefox.
Incidentally, there were some good talks by the Firefox team about how they chose to select which modules to rewrite in Rust (since a complete rewrite with feature parity is prohibitively expensive).