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"modern big world social really can’t be done solely in the client" Maybe big world social is not a great idea either.

Highlights from last week: - Use Webdriver for all WPT runs - Improve look & feel of various form controls - Support :open and ::details-content pseudos - Support JSON modules - Insert a cache for animation with smarter updates

Highlights from last week: - More work on DevTools, Web Crypto API, WebDriver - Improve mouse interaction in form inputs - Implement navigate to fragment - overflow-clip-margin now supports <visual-box>

December in Servo… 🎤🧑‍🏫 FOSDEM talks next week! 🤹🪟 multiple windows 🪆🌐 HTTP proxy support 🔐🕵️ more SubtleCrypto algorithms 💽🗃️ new site data & network API servo.org/blog/2026/01...

Highlights from last week: - DevTools, Web Crypto API and WebDriver improvements - Use shadow DOM in user agent widgets for form controls - Ship navigator.sendBeacon() - Implement Origin API

Highlights from last week: - Web Crypto API now passing 91% of WPT tests - Make Windows installer respect customized path - Enable css-font-loading tests - More thoroughly convert between UTF-16 and UTF-8 offsets in text inputs - Skip some steps when determining encoding for XML document

Highlights from last week: - IndexedDB: Implement databases concept - Extend `SiteDataManager::site_data` to include cookie sites - Restrict box tree damage from changes in original display - CSS floats improvements - Enable contrat-color()

Finally got a @servo based revival of browser.html ! Still a lot of bugs and missing features, but very exciting start :)

Servo Report for Week 50 2025 Highlights from last week: - WebDriver: Enable testdriver tests for Touch - Add newlines after each value in formdata body - WebCrypto API improvements (passing 85% WPT subtests) - Preserve cached intrinsic inline sizes in more cases - Update DevTools to Firefox 145

November in Servo… 🍔🖱️ context menus 🚀💇 parallel CSS parsing 🎨🤹 per-webview rendering contexts 🏷️🍲 <use>, <details name>, <video controls> 🔐🕵️ new SubtleCrypto algorithms: SHA-3, cSHAKE, Argon2, ChaCha20-Poly1305, ECDH, ECDSA, X25519 servo.org/blog/2025/12...

Servo Report for Week 49 2025 Highlights from last week: - Implemented basic support of custom protocol handlers - Added webdriver touch support for all platforms - Finished adding ChaCha20-Poly1305 support to WebCrypto API - Servo can now use a http proxy without authentication 1/2

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Servo Report for Week 48 2025 Highlights from last week: - Added support for opening multiple windows - Added proper labels to servoshell UI elements for screenreaders - Applied variations for `font-weight`, `font-stretch` - Implemented brotli support for CompressionStream and DecompressionStream

Multi-window support has just been added to the Servo WebView API, see it in action! 🪟🪟🪟

Servo Report for Week 46 2025 Highlights from last week: - Updated servoshell to v.0.0.2 - Added support for `calc()` values in CSS Grid - Added context menu options for images, links, and editable text areas - Worked on adding ECDSA support to the WebCrypto API 1/2

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We welcome LambdaTest as our first bronze sponsor, thanks for your support!

The Servo project has defined sponsorship tiers for organizations and individuals donating money to the project. Contact us at [email protected] if you are interested. servo.org/blog/2025/11...

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...

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink. But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

- Implemented light mode for new tab page You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating: github.com/sponsors/servo opencollective.com/servo 2/2

Servo Report for Week 45 2025 Highlights from last week: - Finished adding X25519 support to WebCrypto API - Added basic IDL implementation for LargestContentfulPaint - Implemented Element.currentCSSZoom attribute - Integrated context menu into the show_embedder_control API 1/2

I currently have availability for part time consulting/contracting work. I'm a full stack Software Engineer with 15+ years of commercial experience, specialising in Web Apps and the Web of Things. Please let me know if I can help with anything. #OpenToWork tola.me.uk/consulting

Servo Report for Week 44 2025 Highlights from last week: - Implemented `ToggleEvent` and use for `<details>` element - Servo now handles touch events on Android, unifying touch handling across platforms - Implemented the Compression API - Added Ed25519 support to SubtleCrypto

- Added the 'name' and 'areas' IDL attributes for <map> element - Merged input method activation into the EmbedderControl API You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating: github.com/sponsors/servo opencollective.com/servo 2/2

Servo Report for Week 43 2025 Highlights from last week: - Released version 0.0.1 - Fully implemented pinch zoom, including center-aware zooming - Added UI setting for experimental features on Android - Implemented document preloaded resources 1/2

I'm a happy paying user of @signal.org but I'm disappointed by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social thread about the AWS outage. Signal chose a centralized design to be more nimble (watch to media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11086...), but that comes with drawbacks.

Pretty cool project: www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...

This month in Servo… ☢️🕸️ experimental mode button 🕵🏼‍♀️🍲 Trusted Types now stable 👻✍️ strokeText() on 2D canvases 🗜️📄 ‘Content-Encoding: zstd’ 🧾🥺 new funding request process servo.org/blog/2025/10...

Servo Report for Week 42 2025 Highlights from last week: - Improved the servoshell CLI help messaging - Added new API to hide embedder controls when the element showing the control is removed from the DOM - Remove MFC build tools requirement for Windows in the documentation 1/2

The Servo project is starting to publish releases, version 0.0.1 is out today! 🚀 You can learn more about the goals and plans behind these releases in our blog: servo.org/blog/2025/10...

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Servo Report for Week 41 2025 Highlights from last week: - fonts: Add synthetic bold face support for macos and windows - servoshell: Reimplement "onClick" action on Android - script: Allow loading of <iframe srcdoc> with a sandbox attribute - script: implement url matches about:blank 1/2

It's going to be absolutely critical that we be able to hack on and trust the hardware we use. I think the hardware from MNT is the best bet we have for a computing future we still have a say in mnt.re I hope the MNT Reform Next is going to make MNT's stuff more accessible to more people

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Servo Report for Week 40 2025 Highlights from last week: - webdriver: Implement Pointer ID - Implement fetchLater - Allow WebViews and fonts to have a RenderingGroupId - script: display top-level SVG image documents

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...

From the community: Servo GTK blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2025/1...

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Servo Report for Week 39 2025 Highlights from last week: - stylo: Add support for -webkit-fill-available sizing keyword - html: Add the reflected 'sizes' IDL attribute for <image> - script: implement ClipboardItem getType and supports - layout: Correctly handle margins in sticky positioning

As a French I'm very confused by that waffles vs pancakes drama. Everyone knows that crêpes are the real thing.

If you're into new browser engines free from corporate control – maybe skip the latest 'benevolent dictator', and check out @servo.org They have nightly snapshots you can install, and they're rolling out new features regularly: servo.org

La politique étant la pratique du pouvoir, ça revient à accepter de laisser le pouvoir à des professionnels / professionnelles en abandonnant toute possibilité de les dégager en cas d'abus. Perso, avoir une conscience politique me fait apprécier les actions désintéressées comme la contribution.

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

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Servo Report for Week 38 2025 Highlights from last week: - script: Allow reusing results from xpath queries - html: Check the <source> MIME type on the source set updating - layout: Make bottom table captions obey relative positioning offsets - layout: Avoid recomputing automatic inline size 1/2