Servo Continues Making Progress For Shipping Components In Gecko, Browser.html

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Servo Continues Making Progress For Shipping Components In Gecko, Browser.html

Mozilla's next-generation, written-in-Rust Servo browser layout continues making progress as well as on the browser.html front-end and their goal of shipping at least one or more Rust/Servo components within the Gecko engine currently powering Firefox...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Servo-9-May-2016

[M1kkko]

What's next, implement the browser engine itself in javascript?

[uid313]

Why don't they move away from XUL and embrace GTK?
Is it because they must then embrace GTK, Windows Forms and Cocoa at the same time, and its much effort?

[CrystalGamma]

Why don't they move away from XUL and embrace GTK?
Is it because they must then embrace GTK, Windows Forms and Cocoa at the same time, and its much effort?

browser.html is a move away from XUL, but towards HTML …

[Michael_S]

Michael - thanks for the link to the This Week in Servo blog. Cool.

Why don't they move away from XUL and embrace GTK?

My guess is security. They already have to do a lot of security work around HTML and Javascript, period. So implementing as much as possible of the browser user interface in HTML and Javascript means that there should be fewer security holes in Servo in the user interface layer.

If they use GTK, or Qt, or anything else that's a native graphical toolkit then they have to security audit and constantly update that too.

[RahulSundaram]

Michael - thanks for the link to the This Week in Servo blog. Cool.



My guess is security. They already have to do a lot of security work around HTML and Javascript, period. So implementing as much as possible of the browser user interface in HTML and Javascript means that there should be fewer security holes in Servo in the user interface layer.

If they use GTK, or Qt, or anything else that's a native graphical toolkit then they have to security audit and constantly update that too.

GTK or Qt doesn't require much in terms of security historically but focusing their attention on building the UI in what they already know best, makes sense anyway.

[khagaroth]

but focusing their attention on building the UI in what they already know best, makes sense anyway.

Except for the fact that html is about the worst ui description language right after assembly and ascii art.

[RahulSundaram]

Except for the fact that html is about the worst ui description language right after assembly and ascii art.

Except that millions of people are already using web applications written in a combination of html+css+js. Nothing new here.

[starshipeleven]

Except for the fact that html is about the worst ui description language right after assembly and ascii art.

HTML5 +javascript +css says Hi.

[uid313]

Except for the fact that html is about the worst ui description language right after assembly and ascii art.

Maybe they could use XHTML5 instead of HTML.
Or some XML such as XAML.