Yes, but you’re talking about a fully embeddable browser engine that doesn’t exist yet. I want to see it come to fruition, too, to be clear.
Wouldn’t it be easier to fork Gecko and use that? Or Blink/WebKit? And some already exist (LibreWolf, Brave), so if those aren’t satisfactory replacements then I can’t see Servo being a silver bullet.
To be clear, I love the idea of Servo and I think the browser ecosystem needs to not be an oligopoly. I just don’t think it’s a silver bullet. I do think it can be a step towards an open future of the web and I am fully on board.
Your conflating a fork, with using an engine in your own browser.
Nobody is forking Gecko, Blink, or WebKit. LibreWolf is a modified Firefox, not a fork. The LibreWolf team takes every update to Firefox, removes a few features, ads a few more, and releases their version. Same with Brave. Neither is maintaining their own separate fork. They just take the latest from Mozilla or Google and incorporate their code into it.
Maybe someone could fork one of them. Though they wouldn’t be getting any assistance with feature or security updates from the original branch anymore. They’d be totally on their own with what could quickly be an old code base. Which is why nobody does that.
But back to the important part. What do I need to be saved from?
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Not sure that will save you. Easier to make a browser with a fork than just a library.
Steve@communick.news 1 day ago
You’re thinking short term.
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yes, but you’re talking about a fully embeddable browser engine that doesn’t exist yet. I want to see it come to fruition, too, to be clear.
Wouldn’t it be easier to fork Gecko and use that? Or Blink/WebKit? And some already exist (LibreWolf, Brave), so if those aren’t satisfactory replacements then I can’t see Servo being a silver bullet.
To be clear, I love the idea of Servo and I think the browser ecosystem needs to not be an oligopoly. I just don’t think it’s a silver bullet. I do think it can be a step towards an open future of the web and I am fully on board.
Steve@communick.news 1 day ago
Your conflating a fork, with using an engine in your own browser. Nobody is forking Gecko, Blink, or WebKit. LibreWolf is a modified Firefox, not a fork. The LibreWolf team takes every update to Firefox, removes a few features, ads a few more, and releases their version. Same with Brave. Neither is maintaining their own separate fork. They just take the latest from Mozilla or Google and incorporate their code into it.
Maybe someone could fork one of them. Though they wouldn’t be getting any assistance with feature or security updates from the original branch anymore. They’d be totally on their own with what could quickly be an old code base. Which is why nobody does that.
But back to the important part. What do I need to be saved from?