Roadmap

In 2015, we have two high-level goals for Servo:

• Release an alpha-quality browser that uses Servo as its rendering engine
• Land a Servo component that is authored in Rust into Gecko

This roadmap outlines our 2015 planning and highlights both the rough goals for each quarter as well as some of the biggest feature items we hope work with our partners and the community to deliver in those quarters.

Longer-term, we plan to incrementally replace components in Gecko with ones written in Rust and shared with Servo. We are still evaluating plans to ship Servo as a standalone product, and are focusing on the mobile and embedded spaces rather than a full desktop browser experience in the next two years.

Q2 2015

• Increase Servo quality - pass more feature tests; improve performance; work on more sites; SMup
• Improve Servo demoability - browser.html-style UI; visibly distinguishing example apps; Android
• Make a Rust component work inside of Gecko

Detailed items

• Identify and begin building a Rust component inside of Firefox
• Performance tuning
• Begin reporting and tracking Servo's Web Platform conformance, performance, and power usage over time
• Initial fragmentation (multicol)
• Initial flexbox
• Upgrade SpiderMonkey
• Zero-copy HTML & CSS parsing

Critical 2015 work

Layout

• variables
• transforms
• transitions
• animations
• tables: the rest of colspan, rowspan, percentage heights, and web-compat bugs
• will-change

Other

• Explore using Servo as a UI toolkit
• Visualization support
• multiprocess
• multimedia
• sandboxing
• addons
• prefs
• bookmarks
• history
• cookies