Servo 0.0.3 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based, open-source web layout engine. Servo 0.0.3 incorporates many enhancements made over the past month from better performance to enhancing its embedding API and other improvements like context menus for more web content.
Servo 0.0.3 released today and the Servo project also put out a blog post to highlight its improvements as part of developments over the month of November. The highlights in the new release include:
– Servo now supports context menus for links, images, and other content.
– Support for controls with the HTML5 video tag.
– Brotli support in compression and decompression streams.
– Font variants are now applied to CSS font-weight and font-stretch.
– There are improvements to Servo’s Embedding API, including the ability for each web view to have its own rendering context, which improves the multiple window experience. Plus other embedding enhancements too.
– Servo now parses CSS in parallel with script and layout.
– JIT support is now optional for environments where just-in-time compilation may be forbidden by policy or desire.
– Servo has improved the performance of its incremental layout.
Release by release, the Servoshell demo browser continues feeling a bit more capable each time.
More details in the many improvements to Servo via the blog post on Servo.org. Servo 0.0.3 binaries and sources are available at GitHub.
