Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More

The Rust-written Servo web layout engine project that was born at Mozilla and now continued by Linux Foundation Europe with other stakeholders like Igalia has been making steady progress in recent months. The project's September 2024 status report is now available that outlines recent improvements to this open-source browser layout engine.

Servo is now offering up Android nightly downloads, the Servo example browser continues being enhanced with better tabbing and more, and the engine itself continues picking up more HTML / CSS features, and other missing elements being addressed. Some of the highlights from Servo's September 2024 status report include:

- Support for right-to-left languages.

- Support for various features like "table-layout: fixd", "innerText" and "outerText" on HTML elements, type and compact for "ul" tags, better flexbox support, and other improvements.

- Servo's WebGPU support now supports pipeline-overridable constants, a major rework to the GPU buffer code, and other features.

- Servo now sends font data over shared memory for saving a lot of time.

- Experimental profiling support for sending data to Perfetto and HiTrace.

- Servo.org is now offering up Servo browser downloads for Android.

- Various HiDPI bug fixes.

- Tabbed browsing on the desktop is a lot more polished. Here's a screenshot on macOS from the pull request:

More details on the Servo browser engine progress via Servo.org.