Servo Browser Engine Seeing Many Performance Optimizations & SubtleCrypto API

[User29]

currently, not much at all;

thanks a lot!

i was wondering if it will be capable to run from cli and pretend to be a 'real' gfx browser with full javascript support (ie rendering pages and dump the output to stdout for further processing, etc)

[Quackdoc]

thanks a lot!

i was wondering if it will be capable to run from cli and pretend to be a 'real' gfx browser with full javascript support (ie rendering pages and dump the output to stdout for further processing, etc)

I think some form of that may be possible, I know it can dump to a PNG for instance,

[msub2]

thanks a lot!

i was wondering if it will be capable to run from cli and pretend to be a 'real' gfx browser with full javascript support (ie rendering pages and dump the output to stdout for further processing, etc)

You might be interested in this project from a community member, Cuervo, which is trying to create a TUI frontend for Servo.

[rmfx]

I wish servo becomes a very serious project, but it’s not as light and rusty as I wished for (currently).
I wish it had its own js/wasm engine made with rust too.
But keep going, the progresses are very encouraging.

[Quackdoc]

I wish servo becomes a very serious project, but it’s not as light and rusty as I wished for (currently).
I wish it had its own js/wasm engine made with rust too.
But keep going, the progresses are very encouraging.

iirc someone had drafted a plan on making the engine portable so you could potentially swap between v8 or spidermonkey or other js engines, possibly like boa, but as i havent seen any progress towards this.

[ahrs]

- Servo is gaining a new cross-process compositor API that reduces memory copy overhead for video handling.

This is interesting. Firefox has had an OS Compositor API for a while now but it never got implemented for X11 and Wayland (supposedly for technical limitations if I remember correctly):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1640710

[Vistaus]

Hello from servo, Servo has become "fast" enough to actually be usable on a daily basis so long as you disable flexbox. Still missing lots of things, For instance no blinking cursor thing for typing, and none of the text controls load up, can't paste in images or anything either. That being said, it is remarkably fast, and phoronix forums are mostly usable otherwise.

EDIT: quoting and edits actually didn't work, but the progress that is there is quite nice.

No blinking cursor for typing, eh? Let's hope they keep it that way. If there's one thing I hate on OS's/browsers/terminal emulators/etc. it's blinking cursors.

And no, this is not a joke - I really do hate blinking cursors.

[Vistaus]

Why did you start with "Servo has become fast enough" and then conclude with "it's remarkably fast"? Those two are in conflict, so you are -- in essence -- lying. Do we have to disable flexbox so that we won't be blinded by the lightning-like performance of it???

Lying? That's quite the accusation. Let's keep it friendly around here, especially to good people like Quackdoc.

[Vistaus]

Can't wait for the day where Verso and LadyBird replaces Chromium-based and Firefox browsers

What will Verso from LadyBird do better than Servo? Honest question.

[Quackdoc]

No blinking cursor for typing, eh? Let's hope they keep it that way. If there's one thing I hate on OS's/browsers/terminal emulators/etc. it's blinking cursors.

And no, this is not a joke - I really do hate blinking cursors.

well, currently there is no cursor thing at all, Im just used to the blinking, : D

What will Verso from LadyBird do better than Servo? Honest question.

you are mistaken, Verso is a browser oriented front end for servo, Servo's built in shell is more basic then what would be necessary for a browser (Downloads, Settings, etc.) Verso should hopefully address those issues. Though I could see how the grammer could be a bit confusing.