December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more

Having a viable alternative to the KHTML-lineage engines (blink/webkit) besides Gecko will be a boon for the web.

I haven't been super happy with Mozilla's management of Firefox, although it's my daily driver and a great browser. I just don't have super high confidence it'll be viable long term from a corporate standpoint, especially since it's largely been payrolled by Google which makes Blink, so having another real alternative would be great. Having a sustainable, grassroots community project in Servo makes me have hope again (after Mozilla dropped the ball on them...)

It seems a lot of progress is being made towards making this a viable embedded web engine.

Nice to see donations are steadily growing, it's a well deserved project for the health of the web.

I haven't been keeping track on servo's progress too much, but I was pleasantly surprised. I was able to download and run it without having to worry about building it. It already supports multiple tabs. It was able to load HN and a few other sites I threw at it just fine. Couldn't run YouTube videos but that's understandable. Gives me at least some optimism for the future.

I am also really rooting for Ladybird [0]. I wish they'll take some inspiration from this and provide prebuilt versions for people to try soon.

[0] - https://ladybird.org/

It is nice to see the multiple windows feature finally working. I have seen many projects fail because they could not handle the complexity of the modern web. This update shows that Servo is becoming a serious tool and not just an experiment. We need this to succeed to keep the internet healthy.