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New comment by fabrice_d in "September in Servo: , rounded rectangles, and more"

fabrice_d — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 16:11:31 +0000

Great. But most people will have technical debt from the massive amount of code generated by AI instead, that is not as well understood by humans compared to your case.

New comment by fabrice_d in "September in Servo: , rounded rectangles, and more"

fabrice_d — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:29:04 +0000

Your numbers seem very outdated. Testing on a MacBook Air M4, here's what I get:

- Servo b88af263d11e12288ff3eca0848aaa675d6a52f0: 21.4

- Chrome 157: 60.9

- Safari 27.2: 59.2

- Firefox 159: 41.0

So between 2x and 3x slower than the current "big 3".

New comment by fabrice_d in "September in Servo: , rounded rectangles, and more"

fabrice_d — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:31:38 +0000

You should rather check the tech debt after a few years.

New comment by fabrice_d in "September in Servo: , rounded rectangles, and more"

fabrice_d — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:29:39 +0000

10x gap on which benchmark?

New comment by fabrice_d in "September in Servo: , rounded rectangles, and more"

fabrice_d — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 22:53:02 +0000

Servo is already lacking reviewers. How would accepting AI contributions help?

New comment by fabrice_d in "September in Servo: , rounded rectangles, and more"

fabrice_d — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 22:50:29 +0000

There are not just volunteer contributions, but also people working full time on Servo: some at Igalia, and some at Huawei at least.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests"

fabrice_d — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:58:26 +0000

But some parts are far from being trivial engineering and are not part of any specs. Just consider the security infrastructure (multiprocess, sandboxing etc.) and how that impacts the overall design of the engine itself.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

fabrice_d — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:41:22 +0000

The e/OS/ CEO said during an interview [1] that GrapheneOS, being a security hardened product, was especially useful for p*ophiles to evade justice. This is totally unacceptable. People defending e/OS/ (and Murena, same people, just branding for devices) are either dishonest or useful idiots.

[1] https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116353973732143171 (full interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQV7498NRQw)

New comment by fabrice_d in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

fabrice_d — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:25:45 +0000

All models come with some bias. Given Meta's track record, I would not touch anything from them with a 10 feet pole.

New comment by fabrice_d in "June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more"

fabrice_d — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:51:28 +0000

If you can, try again (don't forget to start with `./mach bootstrap` to install dependencies) and open an issue if the build fails. SpiderMonkey is shipped pre-compiled for most architectures, so it's not a big hurdle in terms of build time.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

fabrice_d — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:11:50 +0000

A pure AOSP distribution is now lacking a lot of basic apps. Distributions like LineageOS or GrapheneOS fill the gap with their own, but pure AOSP is totally unusable.

New comment by fabrice_d in "There are no instances in ATProto"

fabrice_d — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:11:06 +0000

You can switch to the AppView from https://mu.social/ and you'll get editing working.

New comment by fabrice_d in "There are no instances in ATProto"

fabrice_d — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:58:11 +0000

> You can’t even accurately calculate things like post likes.

And maybe that's a good thing.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox"

fabrice_d — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:06:04 +0000

I don't believe this is a good solution: users will obviously click on that add-on install dialog box without being better informed and protected against malicious / buggy / attacker controlled web sites.

Hopefully they will move to a better solution that offers some integrity guarantees instead, like https://rwc26.waict.dev/ that they have an early implementation of in nightly builds.

New comment by fabrice_d in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

fabrice_d — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:10:42 +0000

It has build.rs that will run as soon as you compile the dependency. That's not the same thing but pretty close to a post install script: it's very likely to run.

New comment by fabrice_d in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

fabrice_d — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:10:48 +0000

It's very naive to believe the "no influence" part. I will never give to Ladybird given their closeness with fascists. Is that the kind of influence they expect?

New comment by fabrice_d in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

fabrice_d — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:05:57 +0000

If you are interested in new browsers / web runtimes, Servo publishes binaries monthly: https://servo.org/download/

New comment by fabrice_d in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

fabrice_d — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:25:40 +0000

Probably because they don't leverage cosmetic filtering yet: https://docs.rs/adblock/latest/adblock/struct.Engine.html#me...

Servo Baseline Readiness

fabrice_d — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:25:47 +0000

Article URL: https://webtransitions.org/servo-readiness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278092

Points: 6

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New comment by fabrice_d in "Boss-CSS: I created another "CSS-in-JS" lib"

fabrice_d — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:57:54 +0000

I encourage you to read the short paragraph at https://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-co...