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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

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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...

New comment by fabrice_d in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

fabrice_d — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:05:28 +0000

> Perhaps, but in fairness the project was started in 2018 when Rust was still new and unproven.

Rust was already proven in 2018, and I'm pretty sure they went with C++ for other reasons.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

fabrice_d — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:57:39 +0000

You can't compare the choices made to evolve a >20 years old codebase with a brand new one. Firefox also as Rust support for XPCOM components, so you can use and write them in Rust without manual FFI (this comes with some baggage of course).

The Ladybird devs painted themselves in a corner when choosing C++ for a new web browser, with many anti-Rust folks claiming that "modern C++ was safe". Well...

New comment by fabrice_d in "I’m joining OpenAI"

fabrice_d — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:48:13 +0000

Did you factor in the highest cost of life (including housing, healthcare, retirement, etc.) in the US in your 50% ?

New comment by fabrice_d in "Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp"

fabrice_d — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:48:47 +0000

WhatsApp was using libsignal (the C version) when I worked on the KaiOS integration in 2017/2018.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC"

fabrice_d — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:24:22 +0000

This is a cool project, and to render Simon's blog will likely become the #1 goal of AI produced "web browsers".

But we're very far from a browser here, so that's not that impressive. Writing a basic renderer is really not that hard, and matches the effort and low LoC from that experiment. This is similar to countless graphical toolkits that have been written since the 70s.

I know Servo has a "no AI contribution" policy, but I still would be more impressed by a Servo fork that gets missing APIs implemented by an AI, with WPT tests passing etc. It's a lot less marketable I guess. Go add something like WebTransport for instance, it's a recent API so the spec should be properly written and there's a good test suite.

New comment by fabrice_d in "The Resonant Computing Manifesto"

fabrice_d — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:26:25 +0000

Some people looked at some of the authors background:

https://gameboat.bearblog.dev/the-resonant-computing-manifes...

There are actually things to be very skeptical about.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

fabrice_d — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:46:44 +0000

Some people are also opposed because of the negative externalities when building and running AI systems (environmental consequences, intellectual property theft), even if they understand that agentic coding "works". This is a valid position.

New comment by fabrice_d in "The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy"

fabrice_d — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:47:37 +0000

Mozilla Corp. has > $1B in the bank. Their pockets are not empty.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Google is killing the open web, part 2"

fabrice_d — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:07:25 +0000

The billion laughs attack has well known solutions (basically, don't recurse too deep). It's not a reason to not implement DOCTYPE support.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project"

fabrice_d — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:33:33 +0000

> I can get the source of the kernel, including all drivers, running on my android phone with a few clicks and build a custom ROM.

No, most drivers are closed source and you can just extract binary blobs for them. They run as daemons that communicate through the binder ipc - Android basically turned the Linux kernel into a microkernel.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Firefox Forcing LLM Features"

fabrice_d — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:47:09 +0000

According to Mozilla's own data at https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware Windows (7, 10 & 11) make up 84% of their user base.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Firefox Forcing LLM Features"

fabrice_d — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:59:24 +0000

Most of Firefox user base has always been on Windows, not Linux. What OS do you think the "techies" that promoted Firefox to replace IE in the first place were running?

New comment by fabrice_d in "SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes"

fabrice_d — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:47:56 +0000

Indeed, I did not see that!

New comment by fabrice_d in "SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes"

fabrice_d — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 23:03:26 +0000

No, the phone variant of HarmonyOS runs on top of a Linux kernel.

New comment by fabrice_d in "FFmpeg dealing with a security researcher"

fabrice_d — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:59:53 +0000

It is absolutely Google's security issue if they use an open source project with that license:

https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/HEAD:/COPYING....

and then expect volunteers to provide them fixes.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Servo v0.0.1"

fabrice_d — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:26:43 +0000

You should likely join https://servo.zulipchat.com and ask questions to know where to start.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Improving the Trustworthiness of JavaScript on the Web"

fabrice_d — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:04:57 +0000

On the web, if your server is compromised it's game over, even if the publisher is not malicious. In app stores, you have some guarantee that the code that ends up on your device is what the publisher intended to ship (basically signed packages). On the web it's currently impossible to bootstrap the integrity verification with just SRI.

This proposal aims at providing the same guarantees for web apps, without resorting to signed packages on the web (ie. not the same mechanism that FirefoxOS or ChromeOS apps used). It's competing with the IWA proposal from Google, which is a good thing.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests"

fabrice_d — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:06:01 +0000

fwiw, I'm not imputing you any assumptions. I'm just pointing out that using wpt score as a criteria is not necessarily a good proxy for browser readiness. So I'm not sure why Apple uses that, other than... there's no other objective measure? Of course it's fair game for browser engines to improve their score!