I'm very excited about Servo. Can't believe Mozilla wasn't interested in it.
Not only the idea of an engine with great security and performance is an excellent one, but I also love the idea of a web engine as a component. This for some reason seems to have disappeared in modern times.
IE used to have an ActiveX control back in the Windows 9x days. You could embed a web engine anywhere you wanted. KHTML also worked like that. And in modern times... nothing. Neither Firefox nor Chrome seem to have interest in that kind of usage. Qt WebEngine thankfully exists, but in my understanding has a bit of an antagonistic relationship with Chrome, because Chrome doesn't care for that kind of use.
Plus Chrome is a Google thing, and Google things in my experience are their own world, making them annoying to build and integrate.
So I'm very much looking forward to having a viable alternative to integrate into our code. Both solving security concerns and hopefully making the integration less painful.
Not only the idea of an engine with great security and performance is an excellent one, but I also love the idea of a web engine as a component. This for some reason seems to have disappeared in modern times.
IE used to have an ActiveX control back in the Windows 9x days. You could embed a web engine anywhere you wanted. KHTML also worked like that. And in modern times... nothing. Neither Firefox nor Chrome seem to have interest in that kind of usage. Qt WebEngine thankfully exists, but in my understanding has a bit of an antagonistic relationship with Chrome, because Chrome doesn't care for that kind of use.
Plus Chrome is a Google thing, and Google things in my experience are their own world, making them annoying to build and integrate.
So I'm very much looking forward to having a viable alternative to integrate into our code. Both solving security concerns and hopefully making the integration less painful.