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Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. (servo.org)
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you’d like to embed Servo in your own application, consider using tauri-runtime-verso, a custom Tauri runtime, or servo-gtk, a GTK4-based web browser widget.

https://book.servo.org/

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

“Tauri” you say?

Kree jaffa, chapa-ai!

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So, in order to embed Servo you need:

  • to use Tauri: sure, pull in a huge other project to be able to use our project 🫰
  • use GTK: again, pull in a bunch of unrelated dependencies to be able to embed our project

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".

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is what I said

There was no documentation or guide for embedding it into

This is what you posted

If you’d like to embed Servo in your own application, consider using tauri-runtime-verso, a custom Tauri runtime, or servo-gtk, a GTK4-based web browser widget.

Great documentation and exceptional guide! 👏 What next, are you going to tell me that the code is the documentation? "Just read the code"?

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I also provided a link, which will lead you to the documentation.