In a few years, when Ladybird is stable and largely feature complete, Mozilla will act incredibly confused as to why they are losing market share.
Already a good way through CSS and WPT test suites: https://servo.org/about/
That's two seperate lines of not-Chrome not-Mozilla dev in the pipeline.
These pre-built nightly snapshots allow developers to try Servo and report issues without building Servo locally.
Please don’t log into your bank with Servo just yet!
There a few longish tech talks on youtube, the initial focus was on bringing documentation up to date in order to draw third party dev's in. Now there's more focus on more coverage of test suite.
It's in a decent sweet spot for certain types to get on board; new funding, new energy, room to change the guide rails and a milestone to work towards.
So there still needs to be some browser project like the Ladybird mentioned, or a Brave, or whatever that decides to use Servo instead of WebKit, is my understanding.
(A bit of a tangent since not a browser, but I assume Tauri will be keen to use it.)
We would like to do Windows eventually, but it's not a priority at the moment. "
Or I need PowerPoint and Affinity on Linux.
Tried dual boot for some time, found it too cumbersome.
Yes, it's called WSLg. Uses Wayland, so many apps are a bit messed up. I think there's a way to install X11. Last time I tried it over a year ago it was a bit rough.
Additionally and unlike Mozilla, this volunteer community is also very unlikely to care about non-enthusiasts who may complain the browser doesn't support Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), Web Environment Integrity (WEI) or whatever anti-features ad-tech companies are trying to force onto mainstream users. This volunteer community is also unlikely to care too much about whether web sites containing 10MB of obfuscated JavaScript that was developed and tested solely against Chromium-based browsers works well. I think you'd find that the community would rather spend time working on projects such as yt-dlp to just re-implement front-ends for horribly broken websites, or would simply prefer to use non-broken alternative websites.
Linux is also the easiest kernel to develop against too for reasons that include _much_ better sandboxing features being available, better debugging tools and availability of source code to learn from and debug with. Contrast to Windows with undocumented or poorly documented kernel and other system library APIs, lack of source code (particularly examples of APIs being used in other software), and having to do more work to opt-in to security features that are enabled by default on a Linux system.
30 years ago in 1994 you could have been using Linux (v0.99/1.0/1.1), Apple System 7 (not OSX), and Windows (3.2) - but not with Firefox.
You might have used Lynx or NCSA Mosaic, or by the end of 1994 Mosaic Netscape (later Netscape Navigator) or beta Opera.
I still despise Gtk 3 or whatever it is that is killing menus and sticking controls into the title bar etc. but it's fine. You don't need to use Gtk apps much these days anyway.
https://youtu.be/n4YBMjlGWRc?t=77
I imagine a lot people won't accept that. Especially not as we're shipping more and more JavaScript.
"Servo is faaaar from ready for general use yet, but it's picking up development speed. Definitely an option to keep an eye on for the future. "
That picture of the laptop is the most blatant part. Is that just one contributor phoning it in for the landing page, or does that culture run deeper through the Ladybird project?
Modern websites and the standards they rely on are overcomplicated. The problem lies with the standards, and the way they are used. The browser can't control that. I could never work on such a project without quickly losing motivation.
Also, that link says "The main community hub is our Discord server." That doesn't inspire confidence in anything.
(E.g, Dolphin emulator, who seem to have largely moved away from IRC)