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In light of Mozilla's recent terms-of-service bullshit (and well, the years of enshittification preceding that too)...

Here's a reminder that Servo:
- Is an independent browser engine that exists,
- Is no longer a Mozilla project,
- But *is* being actively developed and maintained,
- And needs your help and contributions to make it a full-fledged alternative!

book.servo.org/contributing.ht

(Its current primary objective is defined as being an "embeddable browser engine" but this is only the first step, and more importantly, it's where 95% of the work in "building a complete browser" lies)

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@joepie91 Not accessible. Librewolf for the win.

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@serrebi @joepie91 librewolf and other Firefox forks are a band aid. None of Firefox forks has a capacity to continue developing Gecko if Mozilla goes full evil.

Of course, no one claims that Servo is ready, far from it, and Firefox forks are currently the best thing available. I use Zen for the past few months. But this post was about investing to the future. Mozilla and Google need a competition, we need a browser engine that isn't tied to a corporation.

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@shine @joepie91 Of course I agree. Hopefully it can be accessible too.

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@serrebi @shine @joepie91 I dk how well that works for webviews, but perhaps accesskit can make it work somewhat?

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@esoteric_programmer @serrebi @shine AccessKit did come up in one of the open issues regarding accessibility, but the provisional conclusion was that it would not (yet) have the necessary functionality to handle everything a browser needs

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@joepie91 @serrebi @shine well, everything is one thing, the basic things are another. And I dk what those may be, but perhaps open an issue against the project? I'm sure @matt would look into it, if nothing else

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@shine @joepie91 @serrebi @matt oho, awesome! will go look at the issue asap then

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