servo-embedding-example
Cassius
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servo-embedding-example
Cassius
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The Rules of Margin Collapse
FWIW, while there are unfortunately only very few attempts at formalizing CSS, there's at least an unofficial, unreviewed (?), partial formal semantics for (CSS 2-era) float layout based on z3 SMT and Racket you can take a look at to get a flavor, though it isn't receiving further development.
[1]: https://github.com/uwplse/cassius
[2]: https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/css-floats.html
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W3C’s transfer from MIT to non-profit going poorly
Do we need W3C anymore? The HTML 5 specification has been created by WHATWG for many years now, with W3C only rubber-stamping historic WHATWG versions until 2017 or so. SVG2 is going nowhere, and so isn't MathML, leaving the CSS working group as W3C's remaining point of influence over the Web. CSS is regarded as so poor and overdone a specification that the only two external projects for a formal specification have failed or remained woefully incomplete (1, 2).
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Is There Too Much CSS Now?
1. CSS should've been split into app-y styles and doc-y styles a looong time ago; meaning that when you need JavaScript to make use of a feature anyway, there's no point in using CSS and it's better to set styles, layout using JavaScript rather than bloat CSS. The Houdini API was on the right track years ago.
2. The CSS WG at W3C must deliver formal specification rather than the prose they're writing up now. For an idea how a (partial) formal spec for CSS rendering looks like, see eg. [1], [2] (with limitations).
The one way complexity that both W3C and WHATWG have delivered over the past 15 years with complete lack of mental discipline due to financial dependency/job security will be a major source of confusion for generations to cone, and will not be looked at favorably.
[1]: https://github.com/uwplse/cassius
[2]: https://github.com/lmeyerov/sc
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Verifying GCC optimizations using an SMT solver
There's this cool project using z3 (and racket) for formalizing CSS rendering [1] I never came around to lift for anything. Maybe someone else interested in leading the web out of the dark ages and give W3C's CSS WG an idea what we expect from them will.
[1]: https://github.com/uwplse/cassius
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Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
FWIW, I know two (partial, kinda) formal specifications of CSS normal flow and float layout, both of which are finished ie dead projects:
[1]: https://lmeyerov.github.io/projects/pbrowser/pubfiles/paper....
[2]: https://github.com/uwplse/cassius
(not counting the 1990s constraint CSS effort).
The first was merely part of a parallel compiler project and also covers table layout, whereas the second is a Racket (Scheme) program to formulate the HTML doc and CSS rules as a theory for submitting to z3 SMT to solve all kinds of decision problems (it can also produce a rendering).
Not sure that's very helpful; it would be cool if W3C can invest some time into better specs (not just prose).
What are some alternatives?
nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.
Radpath - Path library for Elixir inspired by Python's pathlib
servoshell - A work-in-progress user interface for Servo, built in Rust.
ex_guard - ExGuard is a mix command to handle events on file system modifications
servonk - Servo on Gonk
sizeable - An Elixir library to make File Sizes human-readable
Azul - Desktop GUI Framework
alive2 - Automatic verification of LLVM optimizations
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
wpt - Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
exfswatch - Filesystem monitor for elixir