Mozilla emits nightly builds of heir-to-Firefox browser engine Servo Mozilla has started publishing nightly in-development builds of its experimental Servo browser engine so anyone can track the project's progress. Executables for macOS and GNU/Linux are available right here to download and test drive even if you're not a developer. If you are, the open-source engine's code is here if you want …
Yeah, coding to standards went out of fashion, especially among large companies.
Then there's the companies that never modernized, and never will because management requires IE6 support till the heat death of the universe.
Semi-relevent XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1605/
Standards? Standards are so last century. Just like quality control and testing.
Why do hate capitalism and free markets and disruptive tech that changes paradigms by leveraging synergies and repurposing assets?
Because it's all crap is not an answer.
Oh wait... yes it is.
My bad. I forgot the /sarcasm tag. Like this:
Standards? Standards are so last century. Just like quality control and testing.
Why do you hate capitalism and free markets and disruptive tech that changes paradigms by leveraging synergies and repurposing assets?
/sarcasm
There. Everyone got that now?
I disagree. Having a good look at the language, it is exactly the right language for a novice programmer to quickly bash the code, as long as (s)he leaves habits from other languages before the door. Of course a new programmer may be slightly impeded by limited choice of available libraries ...
Stuff like the JS engine and crypto libraries are details to be worried about after the browser engine is complete. They aren't pitching this as a product, just an engine - over which they helpfully threw a basic HTML interface on to insure it actually gets some testing.
I'm happy to see Mozilla is looking beyond the hoary bloated Firefox/Gecko world to the future, with security being considered from day one. The article doesn't say but I think it is safe to assume it has been designed with threading in mind from day one as well, considering that even phones have multiple cores these days.
Hopefully in a couple years Firefox will go away and be replaced by a superior product, just like the product named Mozilla went away and was replaced by the superior product at the time, Firefox.
I wish I had more up votes for you.
I don't mind the drop down with suggestions, but once I press enter the browser should try to resolve whatever I have entered and that's it. If I enter the host name "clatto" then the browser should try to resolve "clatto", not "clatto.com", not "www.clatto.com" and it sure as hell shouldn't do a damn web search for "clatto".
It seems that Servo on Macs has a bit of a problem with websites which serve up grayscale images. The little blue 'processing' bar proceeds part way and stops and never starts again. And the image never loads. And Servo itself freezes solid. Does not respond to mouse clicks, keyboard, anything except going to Activity Monitor and doing a force quit. Note that it doesn't display the Spinning Pizza of Death, it doesn't show as being unresponsive in AM, it just doesn't respond. Strangest thing I've seen this week. Where do I report bugs? There are at least two web pages listing bugs, but I seem to have missed where to make the report in the first place. Examination of the bug lists indicates that I may not be alone in detecting Servo freezes, though maybe I'm alone in finding freezes related to grayscale images.
Hey, hey, my, my, Servo freezes and will not die
unless forced
Amazon is the only site I use semi-regularly (usually more than once per month) that has triggered multiple browser crashes on their site (most often on their "welcome page").
Sometimes, I can't even type in the item I am searching for (while it attempts auto-completion) before it crashes which leads me to using Google to find the item (or class or type of item) with a "site:amazon.com" appended to the search to circumvent amazon's front page.
It's not surprising that that a new browser might have problems with it.
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