glennw / servo-shell

Proof of concept HTML/CSS/JS browser UI for Servo

Servo Shell

A proof of concept web browser interface for Servo, using the mozbrowser APIs.

Status

• Create (and close) tabs.
• Enter URL and hit enter to browse to a site.
• Back / Forward buttons work.
• Window title, tabs, url bars update.
• Loading spinner!
• The JS / CSS is very simplistic, to work around missing APIs and layout bugs that exist in Servo.

Future Work

• Fix up layout bugs in existing prototype.
• Add more shell functionality (as Servo supports more mozbrowser APIs).
• Switch shell to use react.js when Servo supports it.
• Make the real browser.html work in Servo :)

How do I use it?

• Clone and build Servo.
  • Make sure you build Servo in release mode - ./mach build --release - performance will be much better!
• Clone this repo.
• ./mach run --release ../servo-shell/index.html --pref dom.mozbrowser.enabled