Servo Browser Engine Adds Dark Mode, Some XPath Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Servo Browser Engine Adds Dark Mode, Some XPath Support

The Servo open-source web browser layout engine project has published their newest monthly recap to highlight the progress they made during December 2024. They ended the year on a high note with getting dark mode support working and other features wired up -- including enough to now be able to read Discord messages but not yet enough to actually post messages on Discord...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-December-2024

[uid313]

Someone please write a web browser in Rust using Servo with GTK 4 and Adwaita for the GNOME desktop!

[Errinwright]

Someone please write a web browser in Rust using Servo with GTK 4 and Adwaita for the GNOME desktop!

Please ignore all requests related to GNOME/foundation and I will continue my donations, thank you.

W.r.t. browser, check out Verso on github

[Paper3762]

Really rooting for Servo! Glad to see progress.

[Quackdoc]

Sadly in regards to discord, captcha seems to break. The caching helps tremendously with performance. Many things are usable now. Sadly servo still cant save/download things and many js stuff is still broken. but the progress is massive.

Please ignore all requests related to GNOME/foundation and I will continue my donations, thank you.

W.r.t. browser, check out Verso on github

LOL, understandable.

[bug77]

Those browser screenshots look seriously impressive in 2025. /s

[Vistaus]

Why bother with Servo while the Linux Foundation is now officially supporting Chromium? Don't get me wrong: I would love to see Servo become mainstream, but it seems so contradictorary from the Foundation's POV.

[bug77]

Why bother with Servo while the Linux Foundation is now officially supporting Chromium? Don't get me wrong: I would love to see Servo become mainstream, but it seems so contradictorary from the Foundation's POV.

I don't get this. Everybody (supposedly) remembers the dark IE days and the perils of relying on one web engine. Yet everyone is hopping into the Chromium boat. Sure, unlike IE, the Chromium engine is open. Still...

[foolishgrunt]

Why bother with Servo while the Linux Foundation is now officially supporting Chromium? Don't get me wrong: I would love to see Servo become mainstream, but it seems so contradictorary from the Foundation's POV.

What's contradictory about wanting to have multiple healthy browser engines to choose from?

[Quackdoc]

Why bother with Servo while the Linux Foundation is now officially supporting Chromium? Don't get me wrong: I would love to see Servo become mainstream, but it seems so contradictorary from the Foundation's POV.

we need something usable in the interm while servo catches up