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Servo Makes Improvements To Its Demo Browser & Embedding API

([Free Software] 65 Minutes Ago Servo In February)


The Servo open-source web engine is out with its February 2025 status update to highlight work on the engine itself as well as its demo browser and embed API capabilities for using Servo by other applications.

Servo over February picked up more HTML and CSS features such as for the details, meter, and progress elements. There is also better support for the overflow property along with the quotes and isolation properties. In addition, Servo has picked up more web API features.

The Servoshell example web browser has also added directory listing support for local files:

Servoshell dialogs now make use of egul for displaying.

The Servo embed capabilities have also continued to grow while simplifying the API.

Last but not least there has been more performance tuning work on Servo along with reducing the memory usage by about 1% and avoiding high CPU usage spikes when browsing some websites.

More details on these Servo improvements in February via [1]this blog post .



[1] https://servo.org/blog/2025/03/10/this-month-in-servo/



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Eudaemonic research proceeded with the casual mania peculiar to this part of
the world. Nude sunbathing on the back deck was combined with phone calls to
Advanced Kinetics in Costa Mesa, American Laser Systems in Goleta, Automation
Industries in Danbury, Connecticut, Arenberg Ultrasonics in Jamaica Plain,
Massachusetts, and Hewlett Packard in Sunnyvale, California, where Norman
Packard's cousin, David, presided as chairman of the board. The trick was to
make these calls at noon, in the hope that out-to-lunch executives would
return them at their own expense. Eudaemonic Enterprises, for all they knew,
might be a fast-growing computer company branching out of the Silicon Valley.
Sniffing the possibility of high-volume sales, these executives little
suspected that they were talking on the other end of the line to a naked
physicist crazed over roulette.
-- Thomas Bass, "The Eudaemonic Pie"