[HN Gopher] January in Servo: preloads, better forms, details st...
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       January in Servo: preloads, better forms, details styling, and more
        
       Author : birdculture
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2026-03-01 17:31 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | afavour wrote:
       | It's really great to see Servo working on newer features (like
       | preload and blocking) rather than spending all its time
       | backfilling decades of API minutiae.
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       | I dream of being able to embed Servo in an app instead of the
       | extremely bulky Chromium everyone uses today, and use the latest
       | and greatest browser features with it. All we need next is for
       | Apple to allow other browser engines (sigh)
        
         | shmerl wrote:
         | Yeah, waiting for Servo to replace Chromium in QtWebEngine so I
         | can get rid of the pesky $HOME/.pki which Chromium developers
         | don't care to fix by using libnss correctly.
         | 
         |  _> All we need next is for Apple to allow other browser
         | engines_
         | 
         | Weren't they already forced to do it in some countries?
        
           | afavour wrote:
           | They were forced in some counties but (IIRC) only in apps
           | that function as web browsers. Embedded webviews are still
           | Webkit only.
           | 
           | (I might be wrong about that, I haven't investigated in depth
           | since I'm in the US and can't make use of it anyway)
        
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