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glennw / servo-shell

servo-shell

Proof of concept HTML/CSS/JS browser UI for Servo

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Proof of concept HTML/CSS/JS browser UI for Servo

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AlbertoGP·Jun 15, 2019

Is it easily embeddable yet? I’ve tried several times over the last years to use it instead of WebKitGTK, I’ve tried both servo-embedding-example [1] and servo-shell [2] and they were a pain to set up. I can compile servo and make it load a URL, but that’s it. [1] https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example [2] https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell I also tried the examples in the WebRender crate, several times, and I never get any kind of text rendered, just rectangles. Due to lacking documentation I’m not sure whether I should be seeing text or not, but drawing rectangles is something I can do on my own with OpenGL or heck, even poking [64] the pixels myself! [64] I first learned about computer graphics with my Commodore 64. This is on Ubuntu with Intel integrated graphics (i7-4650U), which I guess might not be supported. Is t

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hat documented somewhere? Anyhow, every time I try again I end up wasting several hours, so I’m still using WebKit for my application prototypes. Some of my use cases do not require a full browser engine (thus trying out WebRender), the most important part is text layout and I’m very interested in using Pathfinder [3], hopefully from a higher-level API like libservo or WebRender. [3] https://github.com/servo/pathfinder

In Servo, the Parallel Browser Engine Project

grayrest·Feb 25, 2016

I compile Servo twice per week or so to check out the progress. It's really not ready to go as a daily browser. You can load pages, they're recognizable but generally not fully correct, the form input fields are rudimentary, and it crashes every time I go back to the previous page. There's been one proof of concept basic chrome [1] and it wouldn't be THAT difficult to build a more robust one but I'd be much more interested in seeing it running in Electron so you could run Atom or VS Code since the domains are much more limited and rendering perf is a fairly significant limiting factor in those apps. [1] https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell P.S. I've never had perf issues with Firefox like you're talking about. You might want to try cleaning out your profile and if it's not that, you might have addons doing something screwy.

In Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS

grayrest·Aug 19, 2015

If you're interested in checking out the progress, the build process[0] is really easy. Here's the current page: http://i.imgur.com/NmRNaRz.png If you want to poke around more, servo shell[1] lets you switch starting pages without having to re-run from the command line. [0] https://github.com/servo/servo [1] https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell

In Mozilla's Servo Engine Now Capable of Rendering GitHub

Manishearth·Jun 15, 2015

> If there would be Servo build for Win7, I would use it. Glad to see this confidence in Servo, but .... Servo isn't ready to be used as a proper browser, even if it did work on Windows (I've been casually trying to port some of it for the past few days, though I'm not familiar enough with MSVC to really do this properly and mingw doesn't work for some of our deps). It's still missing a lot of DOM features and CSS. Most of these aren't hard to implement, just that there are a lot of them and we haven't gotten around to it. Its chrome (chrome = stuff that is not the engine), servo-shell (https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell) is pretty rudimentary too. Servo is a browser _engine_ , so stuff like bookmarks are out of its purview. Projects like browser.html and servo-shell can provide these, though. Otherwise I believe it works with the Chro

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mium chrome via CEF. I contribute a lot to Servo and still don't use it for regular browsing. I do use release builds for googling things whilst studying (generally I just need to load simple html pages and wikipedia, which work awesomely), but not much more. As more and more features get implemented, this should change though :)

In An update about the new Chrome bookmarks manager

Manishearth·Jun 6, 2015

https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell does though

In Firefox Bugzilla: Remove Pocket Integration

Manishearth·Jun 2, 2015

You should also try https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell (it's a webpage, and you don't need to rebuild servo or anything though building it in release mode is preferred), which gives you a browser experience.

In Servo: The Countdown Continues

Manishearth·May 14, 2015

We have servo-shell as an HTML UI[0], which is pretty nice. Windows support is still a while away. You can help out[1], though! [0]: https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell [1]: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/1908

In Servo: Embeddable Browser Engine

Manishearth·May 13, 2015

I don't think there's a fixed end goal for browser.html; it's also a research project. Spec compliance is Servo's problem. Customizability -- well, browser.html should be just as customizable as Firefox once it gets polished. Like I said, browser.html uses HTML, and Firefox uses XUL, both in mostly the same way. Firefox largely uses XUL because HTML wasn't so powerful in the past, but now it is, and technically we could replace a lot of the XUL with HTML5. Which is sort of what browser.html does. Many firefox UI components are slowly being replaced by html variants these days too. Now with Firefox's addon API, you write addons using XUL/XPCOM. With browser.html it would be HTML/JS, and you'd be able to hook into any part of the chrome[1] you want. Addons would basically be like userscripts, except they would be for the whole browser chrom

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e. So for example you could write a simple CSS addon that colors the location bar yellow, or write a more complex one that moves the tab strip to the side, or whatever. Of course, since browser.html is still researchy, I don't think there are plans for an addon api yet. I'm just saying that an addon api for browser.html sounds like something that could be done. I haven't worked with browser.html, so I could be very wrong here. Actually, fwiw you probably can write your own browser UI (right now!) from scratch using the same APIs that browser.html uses. Instead of fixing an existing UI by totally rearranging everything, write your own! Check out https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell to see what APIs work in Servo and how to use them. Servo has a usable-ish embedding API, you might actually be able to do the emacs thing (it might help if you chat with zmike in the #servo Mozilla IRC room) [1]: browser chrome = the stuff outside the layout engine; the UI (location bar, bookmarks, history, devtools, etc)

In Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support

pcwalton·Mar 31, 2015

See also servo-shell, a stripped-down related project that runs in Servo today: https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell The goal is to eventually grow Servo's functionality to be able to run all of browser.html.

In Experimental browser built in HTML

kibwen·Mar 27, 2015

Preexisting discussion on /r/rust: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/30blul/the_steam_stor... Servo's been looking pretty exciting for a while now. I believe they just passed a milestone where it now implements the CSS rules used by 50% of all webpages (according to a survey performed by Google), and its performance is still blowing other layout engines away if preliminary reports are to be believed (as ever, we'll see if that holds up as they implement more of the web). Definitely a project to watch. In other neat news, just yesterday they managed to implement a rudimentary tabbed browser GUI using only web technologies: https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell . Ideally this would be a stepping stone to the more full-featured browser.html project: https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html

In Steam store rendered in Servo

frewsxcv·Mar 27, 2015

It's actually just the renderer. If you want to run it in a browser like environment, check out https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell

In Steam store rendered in Servo