servo-embedding-example

There was an embedding example: https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example

Gecko and servo are both not easily embeddable. Servo isn't a finished rendering engine yet and the browser I saw that could exclusively use servo was not compliant enough and since mozilla fired the servo team there is no certain future for it anymore. Projects that tried to make servo embeddable are all dead and gone (see https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example for example) So yeah last time I tried to use gecko I failed and didn't try again (years ago) nobody is willing to do the work and mozilla seems to focus more on other stuff...

The problem is that embedding servo is not that easy. This is the only info I found on it: https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example And it is a 4-year old example. This, from the same author, is also abandoned: https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-api https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/18479 I don't think that embedding is their focus at all, although it does sound like a killer feature to keep the project alive.

No, not yet. But Servo can be used headless: https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example

Rust has the ability to expose a C API. So, I don't see it as a non-starter. It's just that no one bothered to expose it. EDIT: I'm wrong, but I do think the documentation isn't that great. https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/ports/libsimplese... https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example

> Good luck embedding Servo! You know, it doesn't really seem that hard to embed Servo in a Rust application [0]. It's a pretty interesting read. Anyone know how stable Servo is for this kind of thing? It's not uninteresting as a cross-platform GUI solution or as more lightweight alternative to CEF (assuming it is more lightweight, I haven't done the science on it or anything). Given that you have total control over everything it renders, it's not massively important if it's not 100% HTML compliant or whatever. Interesting space to watch for the future. Hopefully the Mozilla layoffs don't doom Servo. [0]: https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example

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

Servo is "one of these based on servo" :) Of course the embedding stuff is WIP just like Servo itself, but here's a few examples: https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell https://github.com/antoyo/servo-gtk