I am concerned about Gecko underfunding. What would you estimate the total budget of Gecko engineering (the old "Platform" team) to be?
I heard (from the horse's mouth) that the entire Servo team has been "acquired" by Mixed Reality. Reams and reams of Internets back and forth make it clear that this is actually what happened and not a miscommunication of some kind. https://blog.servo.org/2018/03/09/servo-and-mixed-reality/ …
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"if we can make it work for VR, it'll be great for desktop web" has a kernel of truth, but was mostly a messaging dodge. Servo is deprioritizing finishing web compat in favor of MR.
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I'm just one person, but the way I see Servo is as R&D for things that might make it into Gecko, delivered to users in a Firefox browser. That work continues. What may not continue is turning Servo from an R&D engine into a commercially viable full web platform implementation.
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The sudden shift in prioritization from web compat to VR projects described in the post (https://blog.servo.org/2018/03/09/servo-and-mixed-reality/ …) belies that. "Just not a full fledged product" is the party line, not a reflection of the the technical and organizational decisions that were made by leadership.
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And I point you again at https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/2506 … the horse's mouth as it were. "we're still planning to continue to both have the Mozilla Servo staff work on Webrender and Pathfinder and the Firefox team investigate its use inside of that product."
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WebRender in particular is on the top of the FF roadmap for performance improvements...
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But the ongoing work to reach full production quality is happening within the FF team, while Servo folks press on to things like Pathfinder. Webcompat work on parallel layout is ongoing and is needed for MR. just talked with
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Will the integrated Gecko version be used/usable by Servo?
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Patrick is still full time of Pathfinder. The plan is to integrate Pathfinder as a part of WebRender. Both Firefox and Servo use the exact same WebRender repository.
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https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/2506 … is the kind of answer I've been hearing.
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