These Weeks In Servo 115

2018-10-15 What's up with Servo for the weeks of 24 September 2018 - 15 October 2018

In the past three weeks, we merged 181 PRs in the Servo organization’s repositories.

Our Windows nightlies have been broken for several months for a number of reasons, and we have now fixed all of the known breakage. If you’re a Windows user, give our latest builds a try! You can visit arbitrary URLs by pressing Ctr+L.

The Android Components project added a component to use Servo in any Android app.

We have a branch that allows Servo to build and run on Magic Leap devices:

Planning and Status

Our roadmap is available online, including the overall plans for 2018.

This week’s status updates are here.

Exciting Work in Progress

Notable Additions

  • ceyusa implemented support for <video> and <audio> element playback.
  • pyfisch extended our border image implementation to support thickness and gradients.
  • ferjm made some WebAudio nodes match the specification a bit better.
  • pyfisch and jdm updated the version of WebRender in use.
  • ferjm enabled the Android backend for media playback.
  • SimonSapin redesigned the Taskcluster CI setup.
  • jdm corrected the flickering of WebGL content on Android builds.
  • codehag updated several parts of the devtools implmentation to work with modern versions of Firefox.
  • jdm made stdout redirect to Android’s logcat by default.
  • ferjm hardened the media backend against errors.
  • jdm made it easier to debug JS exceptions and WebGL errors.
  • nox reduced the unnecessary duplication of work performed by the putImageData API.
  • paulrouget harded the JNI integration layer.
  • nox consolidated the various byte-swapping and premultiplication operations.
  • ferjm made it possible to reuse AudioBuffer objects.
  • jdm fixed some graphical glitches on Oculus Go devices that affected images without alpha channels.
  • emilio improved the CSS animation and transitions implementation.
  • jdm prevented reloading a page from hiding all previously loaded images.

New Contributors

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