On: Chrome is the new IE

[elcritch]

When last I was looking into this, Chrome's embed API is much better documented and supported than Gecko's. It seems that the Gecko API that does exist is largely due to the efforts the Sailfish OS / Jolly people put into it. Hopefully servo doesn't follow the same path. I'm hoping to be able to get into that code base soon-ish. :)

[pcwalton → elcritch]

> When last I was looking into this, Chrome's embed API is much better documented and supported than Gecko's.

Sure, but WebKit2 is better than both, as only WebKit2 is a stable API that is C-based and can be used from multiple languages [1].

> Hopefully servo doesn't follow the same path.

Proper embedding support, with a supported API, is a key goal of Servo.

[1]: https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2

[elcritch → pcwalton]

It's great to hear Servo is focusing on embedding support. The developers seems pretty responsive to feedback as well, which is great. Thanks for the info on webkit, need to follow up on it.