epiphany
Servo
epiphany | Servo | |
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11 | 134 | |
300 | 26,149 | |
1.3% | 1.3% | |
9.4 | 10.0 | |
2 days ago | 2 days ago | |
C | Rust | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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epiphany
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Mozilla removes Bypass Paywalls Clean extension from its add-ons repository
Mozilla is just using Firefox's old reputation to market itself as an organisation for Internet freedom, while receiving donations from search engines. People see more advertisements in Firefox than in Chrome and still support Firefox. They forget there is Epiphany.
- What’s your latest epiphany?
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Gnome Web scores higher web platform tests score than Firefox, Safari 🚀️
You can follow its development by yourself here. If you add Planet GNOME to your feed reader you're also extra likely to see such announcements.
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I'll take my chances 🤷
Use Epiphany. It uses webkit and thus behaves pretty much the same as Safari for most browser specific bugs.
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border: 1px solid red; and I’m happy with it
As far as I can tell, there is no free and easy way to do this unless you own an Apple device. Recently it came to my attention that tools such as Epiphany (Linux) and Playwright (Windows) exist, but even then it's just the rendering engine you're testing, and who knows what weird bugs you might run into.
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Show HN: Ants Sandbox
You might want to take a look at Epiphany[1]. It's just Safari (Webkit, actually), but without the need for Apple devices.
[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany
- With the port to GTK 4 that will bring better performance, and extensions, Epiphany takes a big leap forward and becomes a viable option for many others.
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Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
They used to have a port of Safari for Windows. It was as popular as you'd expect. Having said that, WebKit - the engine underpinning Safari - is open source with BSD and LGPL 2.1 compatible licensing (https://webkit.org/project/). In addition, they make the engine available for use on Linux (https://webkit.org/downloads/). Gnome Epiphany is a browser based on WebKit (https://github.com/GNOME/epiphany). According to their manifesto, they support Simplicity, Standards Compliance and Software Freedom. Specifically, "Epiphany opposes the dominance of the web by proprietary software web browsers. Today's chief offender is Google Chrome, a browser that purports to be open source, yet actually includes several proprietary components."
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Scroll Improvement - An Epiphany extension to scroll more pixels smoothly
Epiphany development relies heavily on WebKitGTK, some things are out of reach for developers who do a great job. One such problem is the scroll speed. This extension is a workaround for that, please if you can contribute, contribute upstream.
- GNOME Web: personal data seems to persist after pressing the clear button
Servo
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GitHub Sponsor the Servo Rust project!
Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
- Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
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CSS for Printing to Paper
> Is there any easy to use/hack HTML layouting engine where I could experiment with custom CSS attributes and bridge that gap? Would anything from Servo be suitable?
Servo could be used for this. You'd want to add support for parsing the CSS properties themselves to the style crate in https://github.com/servo/stylo and then the layout implementation to the layout2020 crate in https://github.com/servo/servo. You do effectively get a whole browser though.
I'm currently working on building a lighter weight / hackable layout engine based on a combination of https://github.com/servo/stylo (for css parsing and selector resolution), https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (for box-level layout) and https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (for flow/inline layout). I expect to have something decent in around 6 months
Neither of these setups currently have any support for pagination though.
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The Ladybird Browser Project
Great to see some competition still alive in browser engine development. See also Servo (previously part of Mozilla) https://servo.org/ - that and Ladybird are still very underdeveloped compared to every day browsers.
It's a huge shame that there are no nightly builds of ladybird to try out but I assume that's because they just don't want the bug reports (if everything doesn't work it's pointless getting random bugs filed).
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Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' Project Is Getting a Well-Deserved Reboot
I haven't messed with it yet but from looking into it, this should absolutely work.
https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Building-on-ARM-desktop-...
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An open-source browser engine written in Rust
don't know, there was a downtime in 2021 and 22 but since 2023, contributions look back to where it was before .. https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors
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Modern Java/JVM Build Practices
The world has moved on though to opinionated tools, and Rust isn't even the furthest in that direction (That would be Go). The equivalent of those two lines in Cargo.toml would be this example of a basic configuration from the jacoco-maven-plugin: https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/examples/build/pom.x... - That's 40 lines in the section to do the "defaults".
Yes, you could add a load of config for files to include/exclude from coverage and so on, but the idea that that's a norm is way more common in Java projects than other languages. Like here's some example Cargo.toml files from complicated Rust projects:
Servo: https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/main/Cargo.toml
rust-gdext: https://github.com/godot-rust/gdext/blob/master/godot-core/C...
ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/Cargo.toml
socketio: https://github.com/1c3t3a/rust-socketio/blob/main/socketio/C...
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Top 10 Rusty Repositories for you to start your Open Source Journey
1. Servo
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❓ Is Google flagging activity from Firefox and targeting uBlock?
It won't don't worry. There already are forks, for the worst case scenario. And Servo is on its way. Not yet ready, but it will be. Originally, from Mozilla kitchen.
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Populating the page: how browsers work
To pain broad strokes, the layout phase (~= take the HTML, take the CSS, determine the position and size of boxes) is largely sequential in production browser engine today. Selector matching (~= what CSS applies to what element) is parallel in Firefox today, via the Stylo Rust crate originally developed in the research browser engine Servo. Servo can do parallel layout in some capacity (but doesn't implement everything), https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Servo-Layout-Engines-Rep... is an interesting and recent document on the matter.
Parallel layout is generally considered to be a complex engineering problem by domain experts.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en... is a really cool article that is related, that is a few years old but what it says is largely correct today.
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qtwebengine - Qt WebEngine
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xsv - A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
Scroll-Improvement - Scroll more pixels smoothly with this improvement.
xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
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