Comment by tehabe
8 years ago
Maybe you should take a look at Servo from Mozilla: https://servo.org/
A few things from Servo were integrated in Firefox 57. But the project is far from complete I think.
8 years ago
Maybe you should take a look at Servo from Mozilla: https://servo.org/
A few things from Servo were integrated in Firefox 57. But the project is far from complete I think.
I'm aware of Servo. Servo is neat to play with, though it's pretty bad with older legacy HTML pages. Also, I'm not sure how likely Mozilla is to develop it into a product; it seems more like a testbed for later Gecko evolution (which, to be sure, is still a good thing).
> I'm not sure how likely Mozilla is to develop it into a product
It's unlikely to become a standard desktop browser, but the roadmap [1] does mention investigating options like a standalone mobile browser [2] or perhaps to be used embedded in an app, e.g. for packaged web apps.
[1] https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap [2] https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/20855
Firefox already includes parts of Servo, so it’s not a question of “how likely” it is to be used in production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_(Mozilla)
> so it’s not a question of “how likely” it is to be used in production.
I believe you misunderstood the comment unless it was changed. The commenter questioned the likelihood of it being developed into a product and you responded as of they had questioned the likelihood of any of it being used in production.
Fwiw, I agree with the commenter and am unsure how likely Mozilla is to develop it into a product. They do seem to incorporate pieces though.
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That's not what I meant. I meant whether Servo the engine is likely to be a standalone product (on its own merits along with Gecko).
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