webrender
Servo
webrender | Servo | |
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9 | 134 | |
3,016 | 26,149 | |
0.9% | 1.3% | |
9.3 | 10.0 | |
8 days ago | 3 days ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
Mozilla Public License 2.0 | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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webrender
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AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
This source code:
https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/master/wr_glyph_rast...
suggests to me that the glyph rasterization (which is the CPU-limiting factor for text rendering) in WebRender (which is the new FF 93+ GPU-accelerated rendering engine) is implemented in Rust and to be run on CPU.
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Is RUST a good choice for building web browsers?
Both Servo and Fifefox make use of webrender, which is an awesome piece of tech and is well suited to render a web page. Some GUI projects attempted to use webrender directly as well, like Azul and moxie-native
- macOS Apps in Rust
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What is the best way to handle 2D graphics programming using Rust?
Surprised noone mentioned https://github.com/servo/webrender
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Learning rust as a python developer
Firefox article outlining which parts use Rust https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Within_Firefox Servo/WebRender, the 2d renderer used by firefox: https://github.com/servo/webrender
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Releasing Dioxus v0.1 - a new Rust GUI toolkit for Web, Desktop, Mobile, SSR, TUI that emphasizes developer experience
Hi, what do you think about using webrender instead of wry on desktop? That is, instead of a full featured browser, just the bare minimum to render the DOM.
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Rust: Does the published crate match the upstream source?
This is in the context of rust.
> it adds a line to a `go.sum` while with a hash of the code at the version specified
Cargo.lock also contains a checksum
> You can distribute your code without a copy of the dependency
Also true in rust, and the default way of using rust.
> If the hashes are different, an error is thrown.
Also true in rust.
For an example of what this looks like: https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/54b725be37f13b166946...
You haven't described anything different between go and rust in your comment since every feature you've pointed out applies equally to both.
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Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
Yes! This is because web browsers use the platform text input stack
Browsers are a great example of cross-platform UI, because they sprinkle platform-native widgets throughout the canvas that they render. Which reminds me that people were trying to use webrender[1] to build native apps in Rust.
[1] https://github.com/servo/webrender
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Browser be slow
What more can be done, besides site isolation and ASLR+DEP? Oh wait, Mozilla rewrote the damn renderer in a better language than C(++), that seems like a good way to prevent issues.
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.
What are some alternatives?
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
bubbletea - A powerful little TUI framework 🏗
qtwebengine - Qt WebEngine
dioxus - Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.
xsv - A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
femtovg
xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
iced - Blazing fast and correct x86/x64 disassembler, assembler, decoder, encoder for Rust, .NET, Java, Python, Lua
Fractalide - Reusable Reproducible Composable Software