This Week In Servo 5

In the last week, we landed 47 PRs.

Notable additions

• Glenn improved our rendering of acid2
• Simon landed another Rust upgrade
• Keegan removed servo_util::atom and switched to string-cache’s Namespace
• Cameron used Rust’s new lifetime bounds feature to improve safety checks on Root
• Glenn added support for superscripts and subscripts
• Martin added iframe scrolling
• Manish replaced our (mis)use of Encodable with JSTraceable by adding a new #[deriving()]-like syntax extension
• Josh and Ms2ger created a separate smart pointer for nullable JS member pointers
• Lars disabled Travis, since we now use bors

Meeting

Stuff discussed in the meeting:

• Build infra changes: Bors is doing well, though there are some rough edges that will be fixed.
• DOM bindings: We need to protect against unwanted moves of Root, another lint might help here
• Josh searches for reviewers for the Spidermonkey upgrade
• Some of our tests spawn a new Servo process per test. Reusing a process would be better
• We’re coming closer to dogfooding, with form controls coming in and with some work being done on the CSSOM (which fixes jQuery among other things)
• Security: If we want to dogfod it, we should have some sandboxing and be careful with it. Currently we don’t do HTTPS properly (no provision for certificate verification), and don’t keep up with SM security patches.
• Incremental reflow is coming soon!