[dev-servo] Servo testing as part of PhD dissertation

2016-09-05 Thread Joel Martin
Hello servo developers, tl;dr version: I am considering a dissertation topic somewhere in the vicinity of: "QuickCheck-ing HTML/CSS rendering in modern browsers". This might have some relevance for Servo. Interested? Any feedback? Longer version: My name is Joel Martin (github.com/kanaka) and

Re: [dev-servo] What should be the unit of debugging in Servo?

2016-09-05 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 9/5/16 8:17 AM, Till Schneidereit wrote: I don't think it makes too much sense to be able to pause completely independent browsing contexts that can't possibly interact with each other. There is no such thing. They can always interact, just async. -Boris ___

Re: [dev-servo] What should be the unit of debugging in Servo?

2016-09-05 Thread Till Schneidereit
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Eddy Bruel wrote: > As I’m sure you are aware, the devtools team is taking the first steps > towards building a JS debugger for Servo. > \o/ (Yes, I'm aware, still excited.) > One of the first questions one needs to answer when building a JS debugger > is: wha

[dev-servo] What should be the unit of debugging in Servo?

2016-09-05 Thread Eddy Bruel
As I’m sure you are aware, the devtools team is taking the first steps towards building a JS debugger for Servo. One of the first questions one needs to answer when building a JS debugger is: what should happen when the debugger is paused? In Gecko, we have a separate debugger for each tab, so the

Re: [dev-servo] Proposal: TLS library for Servo

2016-09-05 Thread Ms2ger
On 26/08/16 02:13, Diane Hosfelt wrote: > Proposed Development > > I propose to create Rust bindings for NSS, which is the crypto library used > to secure Firefox. Not only does it fulfill all of Servo’s requirements, > but it already has support for future work like TLS 1.3. I also propose > that

Re: [dev-servo] Proposal: TLS library for Servo

2016-09-05 Thread Ms2ger
On 02/09/16 16:26, Jack Moffitt wrote: > If NSS bindings [...] provide a better build experience, FWIW, I haven't heard a good word about the NSS build experience in the years that I've been around, and plenty of bad ones. Ted's work to move NSS to gyp [1] might change that, though. (OTOH, Servo