Servo – Open Collective

neilv

What's a sober assessment of the state of a full Web browser using Servo, and scale of effort to get there?

It needs features like bookmarks and basic tabs, and support for uBlock Origin rulesets (either as an extension or built-in).

It doesn't need features like DRM, tethering to mothership services, and paid-placement portal screens.

vardump

We'll need Servo to counterbalance Chrome's dominance. I'll chip in $5.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF

> Donating via GitHub Sponsors is better for Servo than donating via Open Collective

https://servo.org/sponsorship/#donation-fees

nicce

Hmm. GitHub being big enough gives some leverage for payment method fees? Seems a bit absurd that PayPal can take more than 10%.

ocdtrekkie

The collectives' operational costs come out of the fee, GitHub is big enough to zero-rate their cut. But I'd kinda rather also support OpenCollective use over a tech monopoly.

adfm

Supposedly, Apple now allows third party web engines on iOS. Is there a Servo iOS roadmap?

klysm

Haven't they always done that?

Yoric

No, Mozilla developed a full Firefox for iOS in ~2010, and Apple flatly refused to put it on the AppStore.

fifilura

No. 3rd party browsers were allowed but they had to use WkWebView as engine.

hrdwdmrbl

I felt like this link is missing some important context.

History: Initially started by Mozilla in 2012. They laid off the team off in 2020 and transferred the project to the Linux Foundation. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(software)

2025 Roadmap: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap

nicce

50k commits 22k closed PRs. Rust language has 280k commits and 80k PRs respectively. Not a small project by any means.

RobotToaster

I was wondering why are random donation page was on the front page.