[dev-servo] Servo on Windows?

2015-05-07 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
Is there a plan to get Servo working on Windows? Or what would it take? --BDS ___ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo

Re: [dev-servo] 2/10 meeting notes (interning; embedding; beforeunload; acid2 status; testing status; parallelism status; easy bugs; rust upgrade; docs)

2014-02-12 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 2/12/2014 12:12 PM, Jack Moffitt wrote: This sounds like a good idea to me. Is there an agreed upon list of what these fonts are? If not, how would we decide what goes on such a list? On Windows/Mac/Android/B2G I'd just do the fonts that come with the OS on all OS locales, plus add common

Re: [dev-servo] 2/10 meeting notes (interning; embedding; beforeunload; acid2 status; testing status; parallelism status; easy bugs; rust upgrade; docs)

2014-02-12 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 2/12/2014 11:49 AM, Patrick Walton wrote: On 2/11/14 9:42 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: Obtaining the list of platform fonts is incredibly performance-sensitive. We have a gfxPlatformFontList object for this, which caches the font list indefinitely. When the system notifies us of a font list c

Re: [dev-servo] What should be the UserAgent of Servo?

2013-08-31 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 8/31/2013 3:51 PM, Tom Schuster wrote: I started implementing window.navigator and wondered which UserAgent we want to use. We should try to find the most minimal web compatible agent. That probably means something like this: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) Servo/xxx like Gecko For starters w

Re: [dev-servo] Unanswered questions from a Q&A about Servo

2013-07-12 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 7/12/2013 1:51 PM, Josh Matthews wrote: * Are there viability criteria? How much better (performance-wise) than other engines does Servo have to be considered worth continued investment? I suspect that the answer to this depends also on the security question asked below. If we get "on-par"

Re: [dev-servo] State of Servo

2013-07-02 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 7/2/2013 11:31 AM, bigmikelilient...@gmail.com wrote: So, here's a question nobodies seemed to ask yet: Has anyone decided, exactly, what the user agent string will look like? No, absolutely not. It's not even worth discussing yet. --BDS ___ dev-

Re: [dev-servo] Selector matching in Rust

2013-07-01 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 6/30/13 2:53 AM, Jet Villegas wrote: I'd love to see us make some bold moves here for application development use cases (think asm.js for CSS.) Can we define a strict subset of CSS syntax with clear semantics for parallel processing, raster caches, hardware acceleration, and general app res

Re: [dev-servo] Minutes of the discussion regarding strings

2013-06-07 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 6/7/2013 11:27 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: My context here is things like the code I changed in http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e5cc69819435 which was in theory trying to follow best practices (calling SetCapacity, etc). But then it also did appends one character at a time and each

Re: [dev-servo] Minutes of the discussion regarding strings

2013-06-07 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 6/7/2013 10:03 AM, Patrick Walton wrote: Was there discussion about whether string buffers should be refcounted or GCed (or copied, but I'm pretty sure that would cause memory explosion)? Ref counting versus GC is determined on a case-by-case basis in Servo. There's no one-size-fits-al

Re: [dev-servo] Minutes of the discussion regarding strings

2013-06-07 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 6/5/2013 8:42 PM, Patrick Walton wrote: Topics covered: Interning, mutability, cost of creating string objects, encoding UTF-8 versus UTF-16. https://github.com/mozilla/servo/wiki/Strings I would love to have been invited to this meeting. Was it announced anywhere? I absolutely agree that

Re: [dev-servo] servo command line paths - why relative to cwd?

2013-04-12 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 4/11/2013 6:55 PM, josh...@gmail.com wrote: I was taking servo for a spin, my cwd was the servo build dir, and I tried to point it to a file on my desktop, like so: ./servo ~/Desktop/css-selectors.html This results in a blank page because the path generated internally is: file:/Users/josh/

Re: [dev-servo] Handling adoptNode

2012-10-22 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 10/22/2012 7:59 AM, David Bruant wrote: Is adoptNode an important API? It's not a good design in my view, but I'm in a glass house when it comes to criticizing DOM APIs :-P. Perhaps it's ok for performance to be in a penalty box for adoptNode. As a web developer, I've never used adoptNode, I d