▲ 137 ▼ Building a browser using Servo as a web engine! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine (servo.org) submitted 2 years ago by 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.ml 14 comments fedilink hide all child comments Let's build another web browser based on Servo!
[+] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Andreas Kling wrote a lot of Ladybird himself. It's not finished yet, and it's turned into a big community project with full time employees now, but with some experience building browsers, the modern spec evidently makes it quite a reasonable task to build a web engine. There are a lot of IDL files and whatnot to parse and process documents and the rendering algorithms are almost all laid out in the spec these days. I tried Servo last month and I must say that after what I've seen Ladybird do, I was kind of disappointed. I don't think release is very close based on the problems I've encountered. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) yeah but ladybird devs care more about enforcing male centric pronouns than spending all of like 5 minutes changing him to they after many people requested it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 12 points 2 years ago (3 children) I don't really see what that has to do with the feasibility of writing a new browser engine or the development status of either browser engine, but yeah, it was pretty silly of him to get dragged into an argument over that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago I don't see how insisting on having male pronouns has to do with the feasibility of a browser engine or the development status of it either, but here we are. permalink fedilink source parent [–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Because they wasted 5 people's time on it instead of pulling in the first pr permalink fedilink source parent [–] geography082@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Agree permalink fedilink source parent
[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Andreas Kling wrote a lot of Ladybird himself. It's not finished yet, and it's turned into a big community project with full time employees now, but with some experience building browsers, the modern spec evidently makes it quite a reasonable task to build a web engine. There are a lot of IDL files and whatnot to parse and process documents and the rendering algorithms are almost all laid out in the spec these days. I tried Servo last month and I must say that after what I've seen Ladybird do, I was kind of disappointed. I don't think release is very close based on the problems I've encountered. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) yeah but ladybird devs care more about enforcing male centric pronouns than spending all of like 5 minutes changing him to they after many people requested it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 12 points 2 years ago (3 children) I don't really see what that has to do with the feasibility of writing a new browser engine or the development status of either browser engine, but yeah, it was pretty silly of him to get dragged into an argument over that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago I don't see how insisting on having male pronouns has to do with the feasibility of a browser engine or the development status of it either, but here we are. permalink fedilink source parent [–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Because they wasted 5 people's time on it instead of pulling in the first pr permalink fedilink source parent [–] geography082@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Agree permalink fedilink source parent
[–] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) yeah but ladybird devs care more about enforcing male centric pronouns than spending all of like 5 minutes changing him to they after many people requested it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 12 points 2 years ago (3 children) I don't really see what that has to do with the feasibility of writing a new browser engine or the development status of either browser engine, but yeah, it was pretty silly of him to get dragged into an argument over that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago I don't see how insisting on having male pronouns has to do with the feasibility of a browser engine or the development status of it either, but here we are. permalink fedilink source parent [–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Because they wasted 5 people's time on it instead of pulling in the first pr permalink fedilink source parent [–] geography082@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Agree permalink fedilink source parent
[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 12 points 2 years ago (3 children) I don't really see what that has to do with the feasibility of writing a new browser engine or the development status of either browser engine, but yeah, it was pretty silly of him to get dragged into an argument over that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago I don't see how insisting on having male pronouns has to do with the feasibility of a browser engine or the development status of it either, but here we are. permalink fedilink source parent [–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Because they wasted 5 people's time on it instead of pulling in the first pr permalink fedilink source parent [–] geography082@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Agree permalink fedilink source parent
[–] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago I don't see how insisting on having male pronouns has to do with the feasibility of a browser engine or the development status of it either, but here we are. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Because they wasted 5 people's time on it instead of pulling in the first pr permalink fedilink source parent