This Week In Servo 6
2014-10-06 What's up with Servo for the week of 1-8 October, 2014
In the last week, we landed 26 PRs.
Notable additions
- Josh implemented basic support for form controls. We have working checkboxes and radio buttons now, with text input and form submission coming soon.
- Patrick fixed the hypothetical box behavior for
position:absolute
elements withdisplay:inline
- Tim Taubert added support for wildcard namespace selectors for attributes
- Manish purged
Traceable
andUntraceable
since we can now directly implementJSTraceable
. Types can be marked as untraceable using theuntraceable!
macro. - Gilles added namespace support to
HTML*Element::new()
, fixingcreateElementNS()
- Ms2ger replaced
page.fragment_node
withpage.fragment_name
- Simon added better handling of runtime-loaded files and used it to load the user agent CSS at runtime. Cargo can create binaries in different locations depending on the type of build, this lets us load resources at runtime without needing to repeatedly deal with this.
New contributors
Meeting
- Spidermonkey/html5ever review: Going on, both should merge soon
- Cargo/build stuff: Cargo is broken (fixed at the time of writing), and the
- WTF-8: See this mailing list thread
From next week I’ll probably be writing this post on Monday instead of Thursday to better align with the week being written for