Servo (software)
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| Original author(s) | Mozilla Corporation |
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| Developer(s) | Linux Foundation and volunteers[1][2] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Cross-platform |
| Type | Browser engine |
| License | MPL 2.0[3] |
| Website | servo |
Servo is an experimental
Servo has always been a research project. It began at the Mozilla Corporation in 2012, and its employees did the bulk of the work until 2020.[8] This included the Quantum project, when portions of Servo were incorporated into the Gecko engine of Firefox.[9][10]
After Mozilla laid off all Servo developers in 2020,[8] governance of the project was transferred to the Linux Foundation.[1] Development work officially continues at the same GitHub repository with the project itself entirely volunteer driven.[2]
History
Development of Servo began at the Mozilla Corporation in 2012.[11][12] The project was named after Tom Servo, a robot from the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000.[13]
In 2013, Mozilla announced that
The Acid2 test was passed in 2014,[4] and Servo could render some websites faster than the Gecko engine of Firefox.[18] By 2016, the engine had been further optimized.[19] The same year, Mozilla began the Quantum project, which incorporated stable portions of Servo into Gecko.[9][10]
Servo was the engine of two augmented reality browsers. The first was for a Magic Leap headset in 2018.[20] Then the Firefox Reality browser was released in 2020.[21]
In August 2020, Mozilla laid off many employees, including the Servo team, to "adapt its finances to a post-COVID-19 world and re-focus the organization on new commercial services".[8] Governance of the Servo project was thus transferred to the Linux Foundation.[1]
In October 2021,
In January 2023, the Servo project announced that new external funding had enabled a team of developers to reactivate the project.[23] The initial roadmap focused on selecting one of the two existing layout engines for further development, followed by working towards basic CSS2 conformance.[24] In February 2024, at FOSDEM 2024, the Servo Project team outlined their plans for a 'reboot' of Servo.[25]
References
- ^ a b c "Servo's new home". servo.org. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Servo code commit log". GitHub. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ "servo/LICENSE". GitHub. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ^ a b Moffitt, Jack (17 April 2014). "Another Big Milestone for Servo—Acid2". Retrieved 26 November 2015.
- ^ "Servo Continues Pushing Forward". servo.org. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
- ^ Bergstrom, Lars. "Mozilla's Project Quantum and Servo". mozilla.dev.servo - Google Groups. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
- ^ Clark, Lin (10 October 2017). "The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ ZDNet. 11 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
- ^ a b "Quantum". Mozilla Wiki. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Servo engines written in Rust deliver memory safety and multithreading". Mozilla Research. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ^ "initial add · servo/servo@ce30d45". GitHub.
- ^ "Add some stubs and a makefile · servo/servo@783455f". GitHub.
- ^ Eich, Brendan (13 October 2012). "Add a new UI crate". GitHub. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
- ^ "Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine".
- ^ "Samsung teams up with Mozilla to build browser engine for multicore machines". Ars Technica. 3 April 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
- ^ Blumenkrantz, Mike; Bergstrom, Lars (13 May 2015). "Servo: The Embeddable Browser Engine - Samsung Open Source Group Blog". Samsung Open Source Group Blog. Archived from the original on 13 May 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ Dropping CEF support?, retrieved 7 November 2018
- ^ Larabel, Michael (9 November 2014). "Mozilla's Servo Engine Is Crazy Fast Compared To Gecko". Phoronix. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
- ^ Larabel, Michael (8 March 2016). "Mozilla's Servo Is Whooping The Other Browsers In Performance". Phoronix. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
- ^ "A new browser for Magic Leap". blog.mozvr.com. 3 December 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
- ^ "Firefox Reality for HoloLens 2". 21 May 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ Sarkar, Amy. "OpenAtom and Eclipse Foundation signs cooperation for Oniro software". HC Newsroom. HC Newsroom. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ "Servo to Advance in 2023". servo.org. 16 January 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ "Servo 2023 Roadmap". servo.org. 3 February 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ Rudra, Sourav (5 February 2024). "Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' Project is Getting a Well-Deserved Reboot in 2024". It's FOSS News. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
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