@aeva would be great if firefox's engine were easier...

@aeva would be great if firefox's engine were easier to reuse. i've seen it cited as being difficult to use as the reason we don't see this happening with firefox.

Like 8 Sep 2023 at 6:16 | Wall-to-wall | Open on deepspace.gay

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aeva

@astra what really? but they rewrote it in rust

8 Sep 2023 at 6:32 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

wizzwizz4

@aeva @astra Servo is fairly easy to use, but Servo's features were backported into Gecko, the main part of which is quite tightly-coupled with Firefox.

8 Sep 2023 at 11:29 | Open on fosstodon.org

astra 🐶

@wizzwizz4 @aeva this lines up with what i’ve heard. a real shame. their tooling and language are not my area of expertise but sounds like they could use some help refactoring. i’d like to see their engine gain more prominence.

9 Sep 2023 at 3:48 | Open on deepspace.gay

🏔️ owl 🌲

@astra @aeva yeah, I use qutebrowser, for disability reasons. I would love it if it used the firefox engine instead, but that doesn't seem possible.
I hope there will be another reusable engine eventually, whether that's the recently resurrected-without-mozilla Servo, or libweb from serenityOS, or something else.

8 Sep 2023 at 8:56 | Open on gts.u8.is

Decivex

@astra @aeva I've done some research into what it would take and the only documentation I could find is over a decade old.

8 Sep 2023 at 11:46 | Open on meow.social

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