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Announce Servo nightlies #95

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metajack commented Jul 1, 2016

DO NOT MERGE THIS WITHOUT MY SIGNOFF

But do please review and offer suggestions :)


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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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MacOS? Not sure about capitalization.

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## Getting started

Binary packages and installation instructions are available at
[download.servo.org](http://download.servo.org/index.html).

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HTTPS?

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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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We are pleased to make nightly builds of the Servo web rendering engine available, starting today?


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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"fully web compatible"?

contributing to Servo. We have created packages for macOS and Linux; Windows
and Android packages should be available soon.

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QbHYzNVs69o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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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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Till is remaking this with the latest version.


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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the servo.org page is a bit behind the times.

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@ConnorGBrewster is fixing this now I believe.

[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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Add some wording about wanting non-devs, e.g. documentation writers or site designers?

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metajack commented Jul 1, 2016

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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metajack commented Jul 1, 2016

Updated Youtube link to the final video.

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Manishearth commented Jul 1, 2016

LGTM


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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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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tetsuharuohzeki commented Jul 1, 2016

🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

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