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New comment by lastontheboat in "One year of sponsored Servo development"

lastontheboat — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:34:47 +0000

This sounds very cool! If you'd like to talk about your experience with the project on the Servo zulip (servo.zulipchat.com), we love hearing feedback from embedders.

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

lastontheboat — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:16:55 +0000

Servo does execute JS and does support webgl (and some but not all of webgl2 if you enable the feature: https://book.servo.org/design-documentation/experimental-fea...).

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

lastontheboat — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:23:47 +0000

Oh, I forgot that https://arewebrowseryet.com/ exists for this too!

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

lastontheboat — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:09:03 +0000

https://doc.servo.org/apis.html is auto-generated from WebUDL interfaces that exist in Servo. It's not great but better than nothing.

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo v0.0.1"

lastontheboat — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:23:08 +0000

You're actually not sending Content-Type for _any_ resource, as far as I can tell!

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo v0.0.1"

lastontheboat — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:39:06 +0000

This is something I want to make possible! There was an early experiment in https://github.com/mcclure/cuervo/ which helped identify some ways that our embedding APIs would need to change to support that use case.

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo v0.0.1"

lastontheboat — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:35:40 +0000

I found your blog and this behaviour is extremely mysterious! Thanks for pointing this out, I've got a new puzzle to dig into now.

Edit: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/40047

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo v0.0.1"

lastontheboat — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:11:35 +0000

Link? I'm a Servo maintainer and I appreciate test cases like that.

ExBoxing: Bridging the divide between tag boxing and NaN boxing

lastontheboat — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 06:11:48 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@kannanvijayan/exboxing-bridging-the-divide-between-tag-boxing-and-nan-boxing-07e39840e0ca

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43065781

Points: 2

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New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo’s new home"

lastontheboat — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:40:12 +0000

Correct. I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo’s new home"

lastontheboat — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:38:46 +0000

No, it was a name I took when joining a bunch of social sites back in 2012 and feeling like I was the last person in my circles to do so.

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo’s new home"

lastontheboat — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:37:45 +0000

Honestly the project has had >1000 contributors over the past 8 years and a lot of them did just that.

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo’s new home"

lastontheboat — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:06:05 +0000

Servo already has a C embedding API in https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/ports/libsimplese....

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo’s new home"

lastontheboat — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:51:56 +0000

We had a summer of code student implementing support in Servo: https://blog.servo.org/2020/08/30/gsoc-webgpu/

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo’s new home"

lastontheboat — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:47:30 +0000

Servo currently incorporates a network stack, a JS engine, the DOM, JS APIs, an HTML parser, a CSS styling engine, graphical rendering, media parsing and playback, etc. It is not a browser, since it doesn't impose requirements about how to load specific pages, interact with tabs, expose history or bookmarks, etc.

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo’s new home"

lastontheboat — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:44:28 +0000

There is no plan to relicense at this time.

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo’s new home"

lastontheboat — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:09:53 +0000

We've been cagey about this over the months since the Servo team at Mozilla was disbanded, since there were various moving pieces that needed to fall into place. We're excited about the possibility for Servo to continue growing and evolving in its new home, though!

New comment by lastontheboat in "Firefox Reality Now Available"

lastontheboat — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 02:21:28 +0000

Yes, but this release doesn't include any of that work that is not already in upstream Firefox.

New comment by lastontheboat in "Servo nightly builds on Windows now available"

lastontheboat — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:46:47 +0000

We don't mind stuff that seems obvious because it may not be to others. Keyboard selection in the URL bar is supposed to work, for example.

New comment by lastontheboat in "First Timers Only"

lastontheboat — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:42:30 +0000

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webdev/GetInvolved is Django-based, while https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/Contribute and https://wiki.mozilla.org/EngineeringProductivity are largely Python-based.