This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more

[gryn]

I'm surprised by how little funding they're getting. Are those just from 3rd party individuals excluding big orgs?

Given how vocal a lot of people are about the web browsers being owned by Google through chrom(ium)e would think more people/companies would be interested in seeing a contender happen faster.

[jraph]

There's probably some kind of tragedy of the commons, where nobody thinks they should be the one funding this stuff.

I also believe there's the impression that making a brand new browser with an engine written from scratch is not realistic, so why found one? Fortunately Ladybird might have changed things on this front.

[creesch]

I think that a lot of the vocal people are not the ones with the big money. Or even organizations with that kind of money.

And some of the organizations that do have that kind of money have thrown in the towel. Like Microsoft, who switched Edge to chromium a few years ago.

I also think that many people who are vocal about it rather donate to something like Firefox (although it is quite difficult to actually donate to specifically fund firefox development....) because that is an established alternative for Chromium.

[arghwhat]

Empty barrels make the most noise. It’s cheap to be vocal about a topic, whereas donating time or money to the cause is not.

[ktosobcy]

Yeah... it's kinda sad. Even if only HN would donate 5USD a month they would probably get to the goal...

It seems though that most of the people here only complain about terrible state of the web without doing anything about it...

[demarq]

Post up some strong numbers people!

The HN community could easily pass the 100k mark in a day.

There’s a genuinely new browser to be excited about.

Let’s get it done

[nitinreddy88]

And please do that by showing support and donation. Even if every active HN active user donates 10$, it will be huge

[kosolam]

It’s interesting to see servo keeps living. Thumbs up.

[creesch]

Agreed, they still have a long road to travel before they are a true alternative to other browsers and engines. But I think it is good that there are genuine efforts in developing alternative browsers and engines.

Ladybird browser is even further away from a mature product, but also an example of a project I am glad to see existing.

[ktosobcy]

> Thumbs up.

… and donate :)

[xlmnxp]

I pulled last changes to see the new tabs and surprised by RTL support because few weeks ago not supported

I see there PR merged: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/33148

[Alifatisk]

Wasn't Servo abandoned?

[stanac]

It was abandoned by Mozilla but Linux Foundation took over according to Wikipedia.