The Servo browser engine project has published a status update outlining some of the enhancements made over the past two months for this Rust-based web layout engine. This includes hitting a notable milestone that some websites like Gmail and Google Chat can now render correctly.

Some of the highlights of development work done over the past two months to the open-source Servo engine include:

- Some "complex" sites such as Gmail and Google Chat are now usable within Servo!

- The Servo project had been considering a policy that would allow some AI-based contributions via select AI tools like GitHub Copilot. But based on feedback, the developers have now decided to keep the ban in place.

- Servo now supports signle-valued "select" elements.

- A number of new web API features added.

- Engine improvements around Shadow DOM, to the extent that shadow DOM is now enabled by default.

- A new "--enable-experimental-web-platform-features" option to enable all experimental engine features even for those that may be only half-baked.

- The "servoshell" example browser code with its DevTools integration now supports iframes and other features.

- Embedding the Servo engine for CEF-like purposes now can enjoy pinch and zoom scrolling, HiDPI scaling, and other features.

- Incremental layout support in Servo is being worked on and other changes to enhance performance and stability.

More details on these development efforts for Servo via [1]Servo.org .



[1] https://servo.org/blog/2025/05/09/this-month-in-servo/