servoshell

Servo produced a very fast CSS rules matching engine now used in Firefox (see https://nolanlawson.com/2022/06/22/style-scoping-versus-shad...), and WebRender which underpins Gecko's rendering. That's not nothing. About embedding Servo, I have some experience around that (https://github.com/fabricedesre/servonk/) and it's been easy to embed: you just need to provide a GL surface and hook up your input events into their event loop. Clearly there were not zero integration points, and a some other examples exist (like https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell).

Servo supported the CEF (Chronium embedded framework) API for embedding. See https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell and https://github.com/jdm/servo-embedding-example

Building and using Servo as a library has been a huge pain. I've been waiting for improvements since https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell was abandoned

Originally, there was XULRunner, which was used in applications including ChatZilla, Google AdWords Editor, Komodo Edit, Pencil, Songbird, and Zotero. XULRunner has been discontinued. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/XUL... Mozilla briefly developed Positron, which was an Electron-compatible app shell that used Gecko instead of Chromium/Node.js/V8. Positron has also been discontinued. https://github.com/mozilla/positron The developer who was working on Positron went on to develop qbrt, which is a CLI interface to a Gecko app runtime. The project is unstable, and the last commit date is Jun 30, 2018. https://github.com/mozilla/qbrt Another Mozilla developer has a project called servoshell, which is an embeddable version of Servo. It's described as work-in-progress, and the last commit date is Jan 7, 2018. https://gi

I really can't agree more with you. WebVR is not a good investment, when you are not even on par in terms of performance for displaying a web page, the last thing you look into is WebVR. This is one of the main problem at Mozilla, they often get influenced by the trend or they spread funds over many different projects ( that range from VR to Museum Arts, grants for LGBT, harassment prevention, Bioinformatics, etc. those are very noble/interesting causes too but you cannot save the whole world at once ). But I don't know maybe this is good for marketing and it allows them to get even more donation / sponsoring? But I'm really not convinced... I think what can really save Mozilla is WebRender/Servo. The best thing that happened to FF is surely not Pocket (once again, huge investment and most people don't use it) but Quantum and this comes f

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

True, Gecko lacks a real API for embedding. Servo on the other hand has embedding in mind from the start. There is someone from the Servo team working on it: https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell