Hmm, seems like the linux foundation is a nice retirement home for ex corporate projects that are popular enough that people feel sad seeing them die, but not actually popular enough to live. (See RethinkDB)
That is its default homepage now I just downloaded it to try. Works fine. Placement is off for some items, but i haven't found a page that simply doesn't work. I poked around wikipedia mostly though which is fairly benign. Both google and duck duck go jad search suggestions working. It isn't convenient, but it isn't hopeless either.
Last I heard the goal of servo isn't to have an actual browser, but basically build an engine that can be used somewhere else and that all the "good stuff" from Servo goes into Firefox, basically.
That was the goal under Mozilla. Now that they aren't paying for the work anymore, I would expect other employers (and volunteers) to want more out of it than a tech incubator for another project.
It seems like that may already be taking place as part of this launch. I downloaded it to try after asking this question and it mostly works. Just some aesthetic stuff. If I can read news and wikipedia I'm pretty happy with a browser. Maybe make everything beyond documents a PWA or app?
Yeah, I'll admit my info/perception is out of date but I guess because after they split from Mozilla I mostly stopped following any updates. Maybe I'll play around with it this weekend just to see what it's like.
What was the status of Servo WRT suitability to replace Gecko? I vaguely remember that some of the parallel layout techniques didn't work out. Is Servo seen as a dead end or just too much work to get production ready?
> Servo’s mission is to provide an independent, modular, embeddable web engine, which allows developers to deliver content and applications using web standards.
What is the business use case for this?
As in, if each of those people costs $100k/yr, that's $400k/yr+
How will this product make (whoever is paying for it) money (profit)?
If that answer is "it won't, not everything needs to make money", that's totally fine. Could you then explain why this company is willing to shell out at least $400k/yr to have 4 people work on it? What do they get out of it (if not money)?
"Since 2010, Igalia has become the world’s leading web engines consultancy, and has been a top contributor to the WebKit and Chromium projects. Thanks to our excellent work, Igalia has since been accepted as a member of associations including the W3C, GENIVI, Automotive Grade Linux, the Khronos Group, and ECMA International."
But off the top of my head with their focus on embeddable IOT devices, that alone is a good business case. Having CSS/HTML available to render to OLEDs, eink displays, smart watches, etc, would be super nice.
Sorry, I'm not going to write a whitepaper for you, you'll have to do that research yourself if that's a field you're interested in getting into. I already mentioned smart watches, but could be e-readers, e-ink tablets like Remarkable, diagnostic screens, etc.
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Most of the commits are updates to dependencies and the like.
So basically, no one is, outside of preventing too much "bit rot" and some very occasional bugfixes.
What is the business use case for this?
As in, if each of those people costs $100k/yr, that's $400k/yr+
How will this product make (whoever is paying for it) money (profit)?
If that answer is "it won't, not everything needs to make money", that's totally fine. Could you then explain why this company is willing to shell out at least $400k/yr to have 4 people work on it? What do they get out of it (if not money)?
They are an open source software consultancy.
"Since 2010, Igalia has become the world’s leading web engines consultancy, and has been a top contributor to the WebKit and Chromium projects. Thanks to our excellent work, Igalia has since been accepted as a member of associations including the W3C, GENIVI, Automotive Grade Linux, the Khronos Group, and ECMA International."
But off the top of my head with their focus on embeddable IOT devices, that alone is a good business case. Having CSS/HTML available to render to OLEDs, eink displays, smart watches, etc, would be super nice.
Given Igalia work on Webkit embedding, looks like they want to see if Servo could be a viable alternative in some contexts.
Servo’s new home - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25125325 - Nov 2020 (309 comments)