Re:An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager
by castell on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @09:50AM
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I would consider to contribute to Servo and Servo-shell. But my dev PC is Win7. And dog fooding only works when you use it for your own usage too.
Re:An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager
by Manishearth on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:54AM
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servo-shell should work in Firefox too if you want to contribute.
Glad to see this confidence in Servo, but ....
Servo isn't ready to be used as a proper browser, even if it did work on Windows (I've been casually trying to port some of it for the past few days, though I'm not familiar enough with MSVC to really do this properly and mingw doesn't work for some of our deps).
It's still missing a lot of DOM features and CSS. Most of these aren't hard to implement, just that there are a lot of them and we haven't gotten around to it.
Its chrome (chrome = stuff that is not the engine), servo-shell (https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell) is pretty rudimentary too. Servo is a browser _engine_ , so stuff like bookmarks are out of its purview. Projects like browser.html and servo-shell can provide these, though. Otherwise I believe it works with the Chromium chrome via CEF.
I contribute a lot to Servo and still don't use it for regular browsing. I do use release builds for googling things whilst studying (generally I just need to load simple html pages and wikipedia, which work awesomely), but not much more. As more and more features get implemented, this should change though :)