This Week In Servo 79

In the last week, we landed 96 PRs in the Servo organization’s repositories.

Promise support has arrived in Servo, thanks to hard work by jdm, dati91, and mmatyas! This does not fully implement microtasks, but unblocks the uses of Promises in many places (e.g., the WebBluetooth test suite).

Emilio rewrote the bindings generation code for rust-bindgen, dramatically improving the flow of the code and output generated when producing Rust bindings for C and C++ code.

The TPAC WebBluetooth standards meeting talked a bit about the great progress by the team at the University of Szeged in the context of Servo.

Planning and Status

Our overall roadmap is available online and now includes the Q3 plans. The Q4 and 2017 planning will begin shortly!

This week’s status updates are here. We have been having a conversation on the mailing list about how to better involve all contributors to the Servo project and especially improve the visibility into upcoming work - please make your ideas and opinions known!

Notable Additions

bholley made it possible to manage the Gecko node data without using FFI calls

aneeshusa improved Homu so that it would ignore Work in Progress (WIP) pull requests

wdv4758h implemented iterators for FormData

nox updated our macOS builds to use libc++ instead of libstdc++

instead of TheKK added support for noreferrer to when determining referrer policies

to when determining referrer policies manish made style unit tests run on all properties (including stylo-only ones)

gw added the OSMesa source, a preliminary step towards better headless testing on CI

emilio implemented improved support for function pointers, typedefs, and macOS’s stdlib in bindgen

schuster styled the input text element with user-agent CSS rather than hand-written Rust code

jeenalee added support for open-ended dictionaries in the Headers API

saneyuki fixed the build failures in SpiderMonkey on macOS Sierra

mrobinson added support for background-repeat properties space and round

properties and pcwalton improved the layout of http://python.org

phrohdoh implemented the minlength attribute for text inputs

attribute for text inputs anholt improved WebGL support

mmatyas added ARM support to WebRender

ms2ger implemented safe, high-level APIs for manipulating JS typed arrays

manish added the ability to uncompute a style back to its specified value, in support of animations

cbrewster added an option to replace the current session entry when reloading a page

kichjang changed the loading of external scripts to use the Fetch network stack

splav implemented the HTMLOptionsCollection API

cynicaldevil fixed a panic involving <link> elements and the rel attribute

New Contributors

Interested in helping build a web browser? Take a look at our curated list of issues that are good for new contributors!

Screenshot

Demo of the in-progress fetch() API: