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it's a shame the project to rewrite the engine in rust, I think?, was cancelled.
I think the community has tried to pick up the project again recently, but it's obviously slow going without sponsorship and full time devs: https://servo.org/
Oh wow, thanks for sharing. Their task list must be huuuuuuge
I just ran the nightly build and it looks like their css support is still quite far behind. I hope they can make progress though. It's such a mammoth task
Yeah, supporting every css feature in the world is a tall order. I would love if:
Servo supported a small but useful subset of css features (e.g. just grid and flexbox for layout)
Servo was embeddable like a WebView or electron.
Then you could use the supported subset and not have to worry about supporting every crazy feature, and hopefully get a faster lighter WebView for it.
But even that's a lot of work.
I was thinking along those lines too. I’d love to use servo for projects where I know exactly what I’m going to render, or even as a docs viewer where imperfect rendering is ok
aw fuck, was it? that’s disappointing but not surprising. I really wish Mozilla was something like a cooperative instead of the top-heavy nonprofit it is