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Servo @servo.org · 1h

Igalia is excited to announce a new commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the Servo web engine.

www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/I...

Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund | 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 · 6h

For a full browser we don't have a timeline but we are hoping to have a good enough API you can use to embed Servo in other apps in H1'26. It won't be final or stable yet though.

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Servo @servo.org · 6h

You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

github.com/sponsors/servo
opencollective.com/servo

Sponsor @servo on GitHub Sponsors

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

github.com

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Servo @servo.org · 6h

Servo Report for Week 40 2025

Highlights from last week:

- webdriver: Implement Pointer ID
- Implement fetchLater
- Allow WebViews and fonts to have a RenderingGroupId
- script: display top-level SVG image documents

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Servo @servo.org · 2d

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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Servo @servo.org · 6d

You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

GitHub: github.com/sponsors/servo
Open Collective: opencollective.com/servo

Sponsor @servo on GitHub Sponsors

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

github.com

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Servo @servo.org · 6d

Servo Report for Week 39 2025

Highlights from last week:

- stylo: Add support for -webkit-fill-available sizing keyword
- html: Add the reflected 'sizes' IDL attribute for <image>
- script: implement ClipboardItem getType and supports
- layout: Correctly handle margins in sticky positioning

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Servo @servo.org · 10d

Minutes from the Servo TSC meeting yesterday: github.com/servo/projec...

github.com

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Servo @servo.org · 14d

it looks like we can’t mix images and videos on bluesky. let’s try that again: OpenType variable fonts

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Servo @servo.org · 14d

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 · 14d

You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

GitHub: github.com/sponsors/servo
Open Collective: opencollective.com/servo

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Sponsor @servo on GitHub Sponsors

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

github.com

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Servo @servo.org · 14d

Servo Report for Week 38 2025

Highlights from last week:

- script: Allow reusing results from xpath queries
- html: Check the <source> MIME type on the source set updating
- layout: Make bottom table captions obey relative positioning offsets
- layout: Avoid recomputing automatic inline size

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Servo @servo.org · 20d

You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

GitHub: github.com/sponsors/servo
Open Collective: opencollective.com/servo

Sponsor @servo on GitHub Sponsors

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

github.com

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Servo @servo.org · 20d

Servo Report for Week 37 2025

Highlights from last week:

- layout: Fix Textual <input> Vertical Align Style
- layout: allow only repaint when css background and border image loaded
- Add trusted type checks for eval arguments
- webdriver: Support "scroll into view" for commands

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Manuel Rego @rego.bsky.social · 21d

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

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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Servo @servo.org · 23d

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 · 27d

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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Manuel Rego @rego.bsky.social · 27d

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 · 26d

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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Servo @servo.org · 28d

- script/layout: Implement HTMLElement.scrollParent

You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

github.com/sponsors/servo
opencollective.com/servo

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Sponsor @servo on GitHub Sponsors

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

github.com

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Servo @servo.org · 28d

Servo Report for Week 36 2025

Highlights from last week:

- indexeddb: Support enabling IndexedDB after startup
- script: preserve 2D on DOMMatrix invert
- Enable viewport <meta> tag support for mobile platforms only
- servoshell: Add button to toggle experimental web platform features

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Servo @servo.org · Sep 8

You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

GitHub: github.com/sponsors/servo
Open Collective: opencollective.com/servo

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Sponsor @servo on GitHub Sponsors

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

github.com

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Servo @servo.org · Sep 8

Servo Report for Week 35 2025

- servoshell: Display favicons in tab bar
- script: Support custom element states
- compositor: Allow canvas to upload rendered contents asynchronously
- canvas: Move font selection and text shaping to script

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Servo @servo.org · Sep 1

- Add matrixTransform for DOMPointReadOnly

You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

github.com/sponsors/servo
opencollective.com/servo

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Sponsor @servo on GitHub Sponsors

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

github.com

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