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p-e-wtoday at 8:45 AM2 repliesview on HN

What can one actually do with Servo today?

It’s apparently still not ready to be used as a browser engine (and may never be), so what exactly is it for?


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foresterretoday at 8:49 AM

Regardless of actual use as an (embedded) browser, it is useful in the sense that it can be used to provide (another) source of validation about whether specs and WPT [1] tests are properly and clearly defined. That helps for long term browser compatibility.

[1] https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=experimental&label=master&pro...

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nextaccountictoday at 9:14 AM

https://v2.tauri.app/blog/tauri-verso-integration/

https://github.com/versotile-org/tauri-runtime-verso

Servo doesn't implement the whole web platform, but your own desktop app isn't the whole web. You can generally work around any limitations or missing features. And it might be lighter than CEF or whatever.

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