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Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation

Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation

2023-11-06 Earlier this year in July, Servo received a NLnet grant to
enhance several aspects of Servo.

We are excited to announce that earlier this year in July, Servo
received a NLnet grant to enhance several aspects of Servo. Under
this grant, our primary focus is to:

  * Complete float support in Servo
  * Support more languages in inline layout
  * Add initial <table> support

Floats  

Supporting floats in Servo is an ongoing effort since mid-2023. We've
made significant progress on floats, but there are still some issues
that need to be addressed before Servo can boast a fully-compliant
implementation of CSS floats.

Our objective is to achieve an average pass rate of over 80% for /css
/CSS2/floats/ and /css/CSS2/floats-clear/. You can track the results
on our WPT dashboard

Last week, we surpassed this for the floats tests, with an 82.2% WPT
pass rate:

Image showing web platform test result for floats, that is 82.2%

We're also nearing the milestone for floats-clear, currently at a
73.3% pass rate:

Image showing web platform test result for floats-clear, that is
73.3%

More languages in inline layout  

Servo's layout engine lacks crucial features for rendering languages
that don't use the Latin alphabet. This includes proper font
selection, support for right-to-left scripts, and logical properties.
Our aim is to improve Servo's support for displaying a wider variety
of content.

Initial <table> support  

HTML tables are an important and widely used feature. Servo's new
layout engine doesn't support tables yet, which leads to incorrect
layout of many web pages. Under this scope, our main focus is to
implement initial support for tables in Servo, so that it can render
tables used on Wikipedia.

As we progress and achieve these milestones, we'll cover them in more
detail in subsequent blog posts. Stay tuned for more updates!

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