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| rendering engine. To make the Servo engine easy to interact with, we are | ||
| bundling an HTML-based browser UI. While our engine is not yet web compatible, | ||
| we want to give a larger audience the chance to start experimenting with and | ||
| contributing to Servo. We have created packages for macOS and Linux; Windows |
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| ## Getting started | ||
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| Binary packages and installation instructions are available at | ||
| [download.servo.org](http://download.servo.org/index.html). |
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metajack
Jul 1, 2016
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These are redirects to Amazon and don't seem to be https capable. Maybe we can fix this later.
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| Today the Servo team is making available nightly builds of the Servo web |
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jdm
Jul 1, 2016
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We are pleased to make nightly builds of the Servo web rendering engine available, starting today?
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| Today the Servo team is making available nightly builds of the Servo web | ||
| rendering engine. To make the Servo engine easy to interact with, we are | ||
| bundling an HTML-based browser UI. While our engine is not yet web compatible, |
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| contributing to Servo. We have created packages for macOS and Linux; Windows | ||
| and Android packages should be available soon. | ||
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| <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QbHYzNVs69o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> |
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asajeffrey
Jul 1, 2016
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Cool video! Uses the old splash page, but I don't think that's that much of a deal.
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| When you first run Servo, you see a new tab page containing a selection of | ||
| sites that Servo renders well and some tech demos. A | ||
| [stand-alone copy of this page](https://servo.org/bhtml-newtab/newtab.html) is |
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| [hosted on GitHub](https://github.com/servo/servo/), and we have a | ||
| [curated list of good first bugs](https://starters.servo.org/) for people, | ||
| whether they are interested in writing Rust, JS, Python, or even shell | ||
| scripts. Furthermore, if you encounter any problems we’d love to hear about |
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asajeffrey
Jul 1, 2016
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Add some wording about wanting non-devs, e.g. documentation writers or site designers?
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I think I've addressed all the comments (a few were made on an earlier draft in gdocs, which I had missed). |
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Updated Youtube link to the final video. |
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| Nightly builds of the Servo web rendering engine are now available. To make | ||
| the Servo engine easy to interact with, we are bundling an HTML-based browser | ||
| UI. While our engine is not yet fully web compatible, we want to give a larger |
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Manishearth
Jul 1, 2016
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I somewhat feel we should emphasize this more. Unsure how.
Also that some things (page load, for example) are still slow. I'm very apprehensive about expectations, especially since the press misconstrued that email in May. Perhaps I'm worrying too much
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metajack commentedJul 1, 2016
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DO NOT MERGE THIS WITHOUT MY SIGNOFF
But do please review and offer suggestions :)
This change is