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servo-shell
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glennw / servo-shell

servo-shell

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

6Distinct people
11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
176GitHub stars
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What it is

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

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:56:20 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-03-27 01:42:56 UTC to 2019-06-15 08:42:59 UTC.

02468102015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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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

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