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Sure. I'll believe it when I see it.
I mean, you can see it if you want, there’s MPL code and nightly builds. It’s the best shot at ending the browser monoculture and it’s progressing steadily!
Yup, the nightly builds are already getting pretty good. Obviously not ready for any serious use yet, but it's a great project.
I should've been clearer: my misgiving is the claim of "embeddable". If embeddable means having to read the code to find out how instead reading documentation, tutorials, and examples, nah, it ain't embeddable. It's possibly embeddable.
It's like claiming NIXOS were user friendly, assembly being easy, or Arch Linux stable.
It's being developed by igalia, which is top notch. I've tried it on Bazzite, the available builds require no installation. It's coming together very well.
How easy is it to embed though? Documentation, tutorial, examples, etc. Making it as embeddable as Gecko is a losing strategy. Making it as embeddable as Blink and WebKit though, then we can talk about embeddable.
I tried the apk and It even runs webgl, you can already see it imo
I mean embedding into applications. There was no documentation or guide for embedding it into anything last I checked and this is just a demo browser that's being released. If embedding it into applications is as hard as Gecko, it will have no chance against Blink and WebKit.
https://book.servo.org/
“Tauri” you say?
So, in order to embed Servo you need:
I can't give servo some graphical surface (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, DX, whatever), call a function to open a webpage and see it draw on that surface. There's no lib with documentation on crates.io, no bindings for other languages, and non of the things I mentioned in my previous comment.
It feels like this is built just like Gecko was for Firefox: single consumer with the consumer being the "reference implementation".
This is what I said
This is what you posted
Great documentation and exceptional guide! 👏 What next, are you going to tell me that the code is the documentation? "Just read the code"?
I also provided a link, which will lead you to the documentation.