They had detected the most profitable improvements and moved them over to Firefox.
So I'm not really surprised about them not continuing servo, even though it had been grate.
I'm more worried about some of the other layoff.
Further it feels a bit like they got in a place where they financially couldn't go on like before and fanned out to get more revenue streams but if that fails we might be down to chrome + safari, which would be horrible, tbh.
If it really comes to that we might even want to try to push the EU to get financially involved or something.
A parallel layout engine would be a hugely important change for the web. Would mean the possibility of changing or animating layout relevant properties (which is almost all of them) without recalculating the entire page. This is the most important limitation for web UIs.
>if that fails we might be down to chrome + safari
Safari isn't available on Windows, and Google doesn't want a situation where they are the only significant browser on the most popular desktop operating system. Google is scared of antitrust action, getting another monopoly is the last thing they want.
This is the problem with the low hanging fruit strategy.
Everyone gets behind the 20% improvement. Almost nobody gets behind the 1% improvement. Those only happen by force of will (some developer doing it despite being told not to).
In the end you are 80% of the way to the goal and the last 20% is politically insurmountable. This is, IME, a primary driver for the Lava Flow Antipattern.
They had detected the most profitable improvements and moved them over to Firefox.
So I'm not really surprised about them not continuing servo, even though it had been grate.
I'm more worried about some of the other layoff.
Further it feels a bit like they got in a place where they financially couldn't go on like before and fanned out to get more revenue streams but if that fails we might be down to chrome + safari, which would be horrible, tbh.
If it really comes to that we might even want to try to push the EU to get financially involved or something.