Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Samsung and Mozilla collaborating on 'next generation' Android browser engine

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Mozilla and Samsung have announced a partnership to build a new web browser engine, Servo. Mozilla says the new engine will take advantage of "tomorrow's faster, multi-core" computing architectures, casting aside "old assumptions" about how a browser engine should work. Servo is being built using Mozilla's Rust programming language, which Samsung has helped with in recent months. Mozilla is making the Rust programming language available — in experimental form — to Android developers today, but there's no word on when the Servo engine will make an appearance. Rather than designing a web browser to challenge Google's Chrome — although that could be the end game here — Servo appears to be more of a challenge to WebKit, the browser...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/3/4178714/samsung-mozilla-servo-browser-engine-announcement-rust-programming-engine

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