CSC/ECE 517 Spring 2015/oss M1503 EDT

Extending Developer Tools for Servo

Servo<ref>https://github.com/servo/servo/</ref> is a prototype web browser engine written in the RUST language. Servo implements a very basic developer tools server that currently supports executing JS remotely and investigating the DOM tree in the document inspector. We want to expand these capabilities by completing previous work that enables remote logging from web content, and add new capabilities to log HTTP requests and responses to allow for easier debugging of network-related problems in Servo.

Introduction

Servo is a prototype web browser engine and is currently developed on 64bit OS X, 64bit Linux, and Android.It is developed using the RUST<ref>http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/README.html</ref> language.

Running Servo

Installation

Debian-based Linuxes

sudo apt-get install curl freeglut3-dev \
    libfreetype6-dev libgl1-mesa-dri libglib2.0-dev xorg-dev \
    msttcorefonts gperf g++ cmake python-virtualenv \
    libssl-dev libbz2-dev libosmesa6-dev

Fedora

sudo yum install curl freeglut-devel libtool gcc-c++ libXi-devel \
    freetype-devel mesa-libGL-devel glib2-devel libX11-devel libXrandr-devel gperf \
    fontconfig-devel cabextract ttmkfdir python python-virtualenv expat-devel \
    rpm-build openssl-devel cmake bzip2-devel libXcursor-devel
pushd /tmp
wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec
rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec
sudo yum install $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.noarch.rpm
popd

Building

Servo is built with Cargo, the Rust package manager. We also use Mozilla's Mach tools to orchestrate the build and other tasks. Normal Build

git clone https://github.com/servo/servo
cd servo
./mach build
./mach run tests/html/about-mozilla.html

Running

./mach run [url]

Remote Developer Tools

You can use remote developer tools, such as the one in Firefox to debug Web sites and Web apps running on different browsers. The other browser could either be on the same device or a different device. Servo has a basic implementation of developer tools that supports executing JS remotely and investigating the DOM tree in the document inspector. As part of the project for extending the funcionalities to enable remote logging from web content, and add new capabilities to log HTTP requests and responses to allow for easier debugging of network-related problems in Servo, we performed some initial additions to the code to get the web console to print out log messages.

References

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