Servo Project To Focus On Their "Layout 2020" Engine

[Mavman]

I hate to tell you this but the Linux Foundation is funded by "money making big tech" --> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

yeah, i knew about that!
Still, (as far as we know) while being founded by big tech it didn't went the same path as the big tech did (the snowden backdoors scandal, for example) so it's worth a lot more trust IYAM. If we can't relay on some kind of foundation (e.g.: LF, Mozilla) that has "the man-power" to do it i guess we're screwed because "the little guy" (small, independent and truly friendly) will never get any traction.

See Signal foundation, for example... it has some users, yes, but most just use whatsapp and telegram s*it... let's not even talk about Jami and others...
You may have the greatest tech on earth... but if you're not big tech it's will be really hard to get to people these days. That's how it rolls

edit: About the articles: very interesting readings indeed - i never read those before!!!

[smitty3268]

Is Servo still used in Firefox?

Servo was never used directly in Firefox.

Parts of Servo (like Stylo, the CSS engine) got copied into Firefox years ago and is still used today. But that code lives as part of Firefox now, it's not a separate outside library.

[kn00tcn]

Some readings...

the second link has highly questionable wording (biased agenda techniques to impose an idea to the reader), with an emphasis that seems wrong from the start (that the foundation must be about linux rather than the expanded ecosystem of everything that runs on or is connected to software/devices that run linux, but it probably needs to be renamed to the 'open foundation' sure)

[Quackdoc]

Is Servo still used in Firefox?

nope. mozilla abandoned it a long time ago.

[Eumaios]

A web browser making use of the Servo engine should be called Tom.

An MST3000 fan! I loved that show! I'd laugh so hard, it hurt.

[timofonic]

Is Servo still used in Firefox?

[oldtimefighter]

High hopes for this!!!

Would be awesome to have an independent/universal browser/layout engine maintained by the Linux Foundation (it's one of the few i still trust, tbh) instead of being maintained by money making big tech.

I'm sure that if they get this working, even Mozilla might jump into the wagon and rebase Firefox in servo layout engine!!!

best of techies-luck for them!

I hate to tell you this but the Linux Foundation is funded by "money making big tech" --> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

Some readings...

https://thenewstack.io/linux-foundation-critics/

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundation-spends-just-34-of

[hajj_3]

I'm sure that if they get this working, even Mozilla might jump into the wagon and rebase Firefox in servo layout engine!!!

that would depend on the performance.

[Mavman]

High hopes for this!!!

Would be awesome to have an independent/universal browser/layout engine maintained by the Linux Foundation (it's one of the few i still trust, tbh) instead of being maintained by money making big tech.

I'm sure that if they get this working, even Mozilla might jump into the wagon and rebase Firefox in servo layout engine!!!

best of techies-luck for them!

[jamesblacklock]

I thought this project was well and truly dead. Thrilled to see there is still work going on!