An Amazon employee introduced the Servo GTK library, designed to embed the Servo web engine into applications using GTK4. The library implements a GTK widget that allows the use of Servo Webview for rendering web content. Notable features include support for acceleration through OpenGL and the ability to handle events asynchronously. The project is written in Rust and is distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. As an example of usage based on the library, a simple web browser with a GTK-based interface has been prepared.
The Servo engine was originally developed by Mozilla but later came under the Linux Foundation's umbrella. Servo is notable for its support of multithreaded rendering of web pages, parallelizing operations with the DOM (Document Object Model), and utilizing the safe programming mechanisms provided by the Rust language. Servo was initially created with the capability to break down DOM and rendering tasks into smaller subtasks that can be executed in parallel, making more efficient use of multi-core CPU resources. Some parts of Servo, such as the multithreaded CSS engine and the WebRender rendering system, have already been integrated into Firefox. Browsers like ServoShell and Verso are being developed based on Servo.
Source: opennet.ru
