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Servo @servo.org · 1d

From the community: Servo GTK
blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2025/1...

A screenshot of the servo.org homepage in the Servo GTK browser

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 6d

“A threat model for accessibility on the web”
alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

A deep, well-researched & cited piece detailing systemic failures down the web stack (standards bodies, browsers vendors, etc) which marginalize #accessibility and its voices — but with proposed solutions.

#a11y

A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice

A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

alice.boxhall.au

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Web Engines Hackfest @webengineshackfest.org · 7d

Save the date! The Web Engines Hackfest 2026 will be held from June 15 to 17 in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) www.igalia.com/2025/10/01/A...

Announcing the 16th Web Engines Hackfest | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...

www.igalia.com

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Mia (online) @miriam.codes · 9d

If you're into new browser engines free from corporate control – maybe skip the latest 'benevolent dictator', and check out @servo.org

They have nightly snapshots you can install, and they're rolling out new features regularly:

servo.org

Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

servo.org

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Servo @servo.org · 12d

This month in Servo…

📐🖼️ inline SVG rendering
↔️🖋️ OpenType variable fonts
🃏🎛️ CSS.registerProperty()
🔣🤖 TextEncoderStream
🫗⏳ Iterator map(), filter(), flatMap()

servo.org/blog/2025/09...

servoshell nightly showcasing variable fonts, with variable weight (`wght`) values smoothly increasing and decreasing

servoshell showing a diffie favicon in the tab bar

servoshell loading a page demoing a complex grid layout

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Servo @servo.org · 20d

Your Donations at Work: Funding Josh Matthews' Contributions to Servo

servo.org/blog/2025/09...

Your Donations at Work: Funding Josh Matthews' Contributions to Servo - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications...

Announcing Servo's first donation-funded role to help improve contributor experience.

servo.org

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Manuel Rego @rego.bsky.social · 20d

Detailed description slide by slide of my @servo.org talk at GOSIM Hangzhou 2025 blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-...

Servo: A new web engine written in Rust

Detailed description slide by slide of my Servo talk at GOSIM Hangzhou 2025.

blogs.igalia.com

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Servo @servo.org · 21d

In 2025 we already have more PRs merged than in the whole of 2024!

2024 PRs: 1,771
2025 PRs: 1,983*

*At the last count of the data this month.

A bar and line chart titled Servo PRs Stats, showing the number of PRs and contributors since 2018. 2018 had between 1,000 and 1,500 PRs before declining steadily until 2022 when contributions nearly stalled. In 2023 the bars and lines begin to steeply rise again, with 2025 showing nearly 2000 PRs merged and contributors reaching an all time high.

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Manuel Rego @rego.bsky.social · 25d

The slides of my @servo.org talk at GOSIM Hangzhou today are available at blogs.igalia.com/mrego/resour...

Myself during my talk about Servo at GOSIM Hangzhou. I'm on stage with the slides behind and there are some people on the audicence.

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Manuel Rego @rego.bsky.social · 25d

Gregory Terzian is talking about how to embed @servo.org at GOSIM Hangzhou

Gregory Terzian at GOSIM Hangzhou's stage with a slide about embedding Servo

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Manuel Rego @rego.bsky.social · 25d

Martin Robinson and Oriol Brufau from @igalia.com giving a deep dive into @servo.org's layout engine at GOSIM Hangzhou

Picture of Oriol Brufau and Martin Robison on stage, with the fist slide of their talk call "A dive into the Servo layout system"

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Simon Wülker @simonwuelker.bsky.social · Aug 27

After updating Servo's embedding API, servoshell can now display favicons for different tabs!
It's a small thing but it makes the browser feel much more complete.

github.com/servo/servo/...

An image of tab bars in the servoshell browser with little favicons being displayed next to the website title.

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Igalia @igalia.com · Sep 4

#Interop2026 has opened for proposals! This annual cross-vendor project to increase browser compatibility will take your suggestions through September 24. Learn more and speak up: www.igalia.com/2025/09/04/C...

Call for Proposals: Interop 2026 | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...

www.igalia.com

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Servo @servo.org · Aug 27

Another milestone unlocked for Servo: inline SVG support has now landed 🎉

github.com/servo/servo/...

Decorative cover that reads "inline SVG is now supported"

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Servo @servo.org · Aug 22

This month in Servo…

🎞️📽️ APNG and WebP animations
🚄🎨 GPU-accelerated 2D

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Web Engines Hackfest @webengineshackfest.org · Aug 14

A look back at the Web Engines Hackfest 2025: we have just published photos at flickr.com/photos/webha... 📷

Web Engines Hackfest 2025

Explore this photo album by Web Engines Hackfest on Flickr!

flickr.com

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Servo @servo.org · Aug 8

Servo Report Week 31 2025

Highlights from last week:

- Implement initial version of `navigator.sendBeacon`
- script: Create a debugger script for the SpiderMonkey Debugger API
- layout: respect `image-rendering` on border images

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · Aug 13

Looking at the state of CSS from this year and pleased to see that in "game changer feature" almost half of people voted for the top two things: Grid and :has - both things @igalia.com helped make happen 👏

2025.stateofcss.com/en-US/usage/...

State of CSS 2025: CSS Usage

2025.stateofcss.com

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mariospr.bsky.social @mariospr.bsky.social · Jul 21

The video recording for my talk "Unlocking the Full Potential of WPE to Build a Successful Embedded Product" in the latest #OSSummit, just one month ago, is now live at www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTl...

Slides also available at www.slideshare.net/slideshow/un...

Unlocking the Full Potential of WPE To Build a Successful Embedded Product - Mario Sanchez-Prada

YouTube video by The Linux Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Servo @servo.org · Jul 18

This month in Servo…

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