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.

For ending out the past month, the Servo open-source developers accomplished a number of items such as:

- Servo now supports dark mode and will respect the OS/platform dark mode within the Servoshell example browser with the "prefers-color-scheme" handling currently on Windows and macOS.

- CSS transitions can now be triggered properly by script.

- Servo now runs Discord enough to log-in and read messages. But not yet the ability to send messages on Discord.

- Shadow DOM support continues to be improved upon.

- Enough of XPath support is implemented to get HTMX working.

- The Servo performance continues to be better optimized across multiple fronts.

- Servoshell nightly builds are now up to 20% smaller than previously.

- Prepping the infrastructure for handling full incremental layout with the new layout engine.

- Various other features and fixes.

The Servo developers also shared some screenshots of the latest work on the Servo engine within the Servoshell:

More details on these Servo advancements via Servo.org.