This Week In Servo 59

2016-04-11 What's up with Servo for the week of 04 Apr 2016 - 11 Apr 2016

In the last week, we landed 111 PRs in the Servo organization’s repositories.

Notable Additions

  • aneesh added compiletest to the suite run on the linux-dev builder
  • emilio updated the stylo bindings for better union support
  • pcwalton fixed scrolling in non-absolutely-positioned elements using overflow: scroll
  • larsberg gated landing changes to Servo on Aarch64
  • saurav implemented the getActiveUniform() WebGL API
  • autrilla added the Uniform{1iv, 2f, 2fv} WebGL APIs
  • antrik fixed ipc-channel when message sizes are too close to the packet size
  • stjepang added preferences to enable/disable the various SpiderMonkey JITs
  • ms2ger and nox landed a long-stalled Rust upgrade, with lots of help from eddyb!
  • paul implemented force touch events
  • kichjang and jwilm added support for terminating DOM workers
  • till improved scrolling snapping behaviour
  • kichjang ensured that text decorations (like underline) are inherited properly
  • asajeffrey removed sources of panics from the pipeline code
  • notriddle corrected an edge case related to whitespace and borders
  • mskrzypkows created a test harness to avoid regressions in our code style checker
  • shiroy prevented 404 HTTP responses from being interpreted as valid JS

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Screenshot

nox just got Servo working with an upgraded SpiderMonkey that has the new Promises support implemented by till!

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Meetings

Last week, we skipped the meeting, due to lack of agenda items.

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