Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium

October in Servo… 🌳🍃 XPath enabled by default 🗜️📦 Compression Streams too 🦾🍎 native macOS arm64 releases 🤖☢️ Android experimental mode 🪆🤝 new input and zoom API servo.org/blog/2025/11...

Igalia is excited to announce a new commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the Servo web engine. www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/I...

This month in Servo… 📐🖼️ inline SVG rendering ↔️🖋️ OpenType variable fonts 🃏🎛️ CSS.registerProperty() 🔣🤖 TextEncoderStream 🫗⏳ Iterator map(), filter(), flatMap() servo.org/blog/2025/09...

Servo Report for Week 35 2025 - servoshell: Display favicons in tab bar - script: Support custom element states - compositor: Allow canvas to upload rendered contents asynchronously - canvas: Move font selection and text shaping to script 1/2

After updating Servo's embedding API, servoshell can now display favicons for different tabs! It's a small thing but it makes the browser feel much more complete. github.com/servo/servo/...

Another milestone unlocked for Servo: inline SVG support has now landed 🎉 github.com/servo/servo/...

Nice to see more people getting excited about servo: www.spacebar.news/servo-underc... (not my blog post)

Servo Report Week 26 2025 Highlights from last week: - Implement declarative shadow root support for async HTML parser - Add CanvasPattern 'setTransform(transform)' method - Make ImageData more spec compliant - Various improvements to incremental layout - servoshell: Enable accesskit integration

Servo Report Week 25 2025 Recent project highlights: - Encoding improvements making Servo pass over 1.7M WPT subtests now - More progress on WebDriver support - Start using fontations to read font tables - Initial IndexDB support - Continue work on ImageBitmap implementation 1/2

This month in Servo… 🎨⌨️ <input type="color"> 🖋️🖼️ SVG in <img src> 🎥🎞️ animated GIF support 🛠️🔍 highlight elements in devtools 🐈💨 start of incremental layout servo.org/blog/2025/06...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Two months in Servo… 🐟💭 new about:memory page 🪆🎞️ ‘&’ selector and ‘image-set()’ 📝⌨️ <select> and better <input> 🔎🐜 per-webview HiDPI support ✨🕸️ --enable-experimental-web-platform-features servo.org/blog/2025/05...

After the community feedback Servo TSC would like to share that we have decided to not modify the AI policy and keep it as is. Future discussions on this topic (if any) will happen on public channels. More details: github.com/servo/servo/...

Servo Report Week 14 2025 Highlights from last week: - Support single-value <select> elements - Implement ClipboardItem - Fix radio group validity update when removing or selecting an input - Implement CSS Nesting

Servo Report Week 13 2025 Highlights from last week: - Implemented support for image-set() notation - Added Path2D support for 2D canvas - Use sRGB colorspace on macOS in servoshell - Started implementing the URLPattern API

🎙️ New Podcast Episode: What happens if Google is forced to sell Chrome? www.igalia.com/chats/chris-... @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with @chriscoyier.net about his recent blog post on the topic, consider ways it could be good or bad, and reflect on the state of the browser ecosystem.

@igalia.com wrote a great post about their work on getting curve25519 into browsers: blogs.igalia.com/jfernandez/2... Chrome seems to be the limping leg in terms of a secure implementation for the whole web here.

KDAB has built a demo showing how to integrate a Rust project - Servo, a web rendering engine - into a Qt app using CXX-Qt highlighting the power of combining #RustLang and #QtDev. We're also working on a port using the new Servo WebView API to push the possibilities further. @servo.org

Servo Report for Week 9 2025 Highlights from last week: - Continued to add support for keyword sizes - Various WebView API improvements - Implement preparation-time document - Implement the <progress> element 1/2

Servo Report for Week 8 2025 Highlights from last week: - WritableStream implementation - FontFace API initial support - Support the`<meter>` element - More work on the WebView API (1/2)

This month in Servo… 🕸️🪟 new webview API 🕵️🌲 :host and <slot> 🌈🎨 relative CSS colors 🖌️🗜️ canvas to JPEG/WebP/blob 🛜💨 more efficient networking servo.org/blog/2025/02...

Big win for Servo! Servo now passes 94.9% of Web Platform Tests for CSS2 Tables, surpassing Blink! 🎉 Big congrats to the team for their incredible progress on table support over the past year. #OpenSource

Rink, the calculator with unit conversions and dimensional analysis, works pretty much perfectly in Servo now that we have text input support! rinkcalc.app

Servo Weekly Report Nº24 Highlights from last week: - Continued implementing shadow DOM, adding support for the `::slotted` selector - servoshell now uses the new delegate webview API - DevTools inspector now shows shadow roots 1/2

2024 was huge for Servo, thanks to our amazing community! 💙 With big leaps in web compatibility across multiple feature areas, we’re more excited than ever for what's next. Read about the 2024 highlights over on the blog: servo.org/blog/2025/01/31/servo-in-2024 #OpenSource

After a lot of fiddling around with the stylo integration, i finally got @servo.org to lay out the contents of `<slot>` elements! It may not look like much, but it makes custom elements in servo significantly more powerful :D [Here's the code for the demo image](t.ly/kTLPS)

Martin Robinson will be talking about Servo and why we’re building a browser engine in Rust tomorrow at the Barcelona Free Software Meetup. More information on the event: www.meetup.com/barcelona-fr...