Last autumn we finally fell to third behind Microsoft, in fairness.. But we're also the second biggest contributors to WebKit (really significant there) and Gecko too, as well as the #1 contributors to Servo, and more - if you're interested: https://bkardell.com/blog/2024-Midseason.html
One big reason to want change is to change the funding model that currently supports the existing browser projects, which isn't great and is threatened too...
Interesting - I had never never seen nyxt - but it doesn't seem to be a new renderer as far as I can tell? I could be wrong! I'm curious if it is though! It seems to say in the FAQ it is agnostic and currently supports a few engines as the renderer https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/faq
Hi, Igalian here. I can tell you that Wolvic does not use Servo nor are there any immediate (or even long term at this point) plans for it to. That's not to say it couldn't happen someday or that it wouldn't be interesting. We are major contributors to a lot of major projects and many of them have something to do with web engines (see https://bkardell.com/blog/2023-Mid-Season-Power-Rankings.htm...) so it's easy enough to see connections, but the connections are mainly often more generally just "we have a lot of interest in web stuff, and a great reputation for contributing".
> It seems like some of the work that Igalia did was externally funded, but far from all of it.
Yes, that's right. Very far from all of it, but we're also very appreciative of those who did contribute funding. (I'm from Igalia/the host you're quoting)
> about doing some work on MathML in WebKit [sic; Blink presumably
Interesting observation. Fwiw, I am definitely very much a native english speaker (in fact, I don't speak any other (non-programming) language very well), and I proposed the name. As the post says at the end - it doesn't hurt that the domains are available if you don't use a "real" world. I guess we'll see if this happens.
Ah hey thanks for the shout outs :) FWIW Jay Hoffmann has been doin some posts on CSS Tricks https://css-tricks.com/category/history/ and there are some other intersting things in this space too. If you like these, I also do some web history things on our Igalia chats podcasts, often with folks firsthand - one is in fact going to be a chat with Chris Wilson tomorrow at BlinkOn 15.
It's part of WebKit itself, so shared by Safari, yes... Igalia is the #2 contributor to WebKit behind Apple with ~16% of all commits (we maintain a few official ports, including the one used for embedded devices, WPE WebKit). Sony are also significant contributors to WebKit. So, it's not an academic exercise, no. Apple WebKit engineers have been quite supportive..
Also the second largest contributor to WebKit after Apple in the same years. I shared a link here in one of the other comments with charts and lots more info from the end of 2019.
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking/interested in, but my contact information is on the linked site/my twitter DMs are open and I'm happy to talk more.
Yes! We've contributed loads to each of them. Here's a summary I wrote at the end of last year https://bkardell.com/blog/2019-Wrap.html - #2 contributor to Chromium, #2 contributor to WebKit, top 10 to Firefox last year.