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Glenn Watson 12978eeb50 Next stage of refactoring font system. This commit introduces
the font cache task, and adapts client code to use it. It also
cleans up some existing code paths.

- Fonts are only read once from disk while in use (they
  are discarded if the reference count reaches zero, however).
  This saves memory and prevents unnecessary reading from disk.
- It will be easier to add web font support, as all fonts
  are created and managed in a single place and the entire
  pipeline ensures that only one in-memory copy of font data
  is required.

An overview of how the pieces fit together:

FontTemplate - A structure containing everything that
is required to create (and select) font handles. This
structure is shared among all matching font handles
(via Arc).

FontTemplateData - A platform specific structure that
contains the actual font data inside a template (this is
a byte array on Linux/Android, CTFont on Mac).

FontHandle - An opaque, platform specific handle to
a font instance. Each FontHandle contains an Arc<>
reference to the FontTemplate it was created from.

FontCache - This is a separate task, that is responsible
for loading and caching FontTemplate structures. There
is one FontCache per constellation. It is only ever accessed
via the FontContext described below.

FontContext - This is the public interface to the FontCache
and is used by the layout and render code to create font
handles. These must *not* be shared between threads. There
is typically one FontContext per thread/task.
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The Servo Parallel Browser Project

Servo is a prototype web browser engine written in the Rust language. It is currently developed on 64bit OS X and 64bit Linux.

Servo welcomes contribution from everyone. See CONTRIBUTING.md for help getting started.

Prerequisites

On OS X (homebrew):

brew install https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-versions/master/autoconf213.rb
brew install automake libtool pkg-config

On OS X (MacPorts):

sudo port install autoconf213

On Debian-based Linuxes:

sudo apt-get install autoconf2.13 curl freeglut3-dev libtool \
    libfreetype6-dev libgl1-mesa-dri libglib2.0-dev xorg-dev \
    msttcorefonts gperf g++ automake cmake

On Fedora Core:

sudo yum install autoconf213 curl freeglut-devel libtool \
    freetype-devel mesa-libGL-devel glib2-devel libX11-devel \
    gperf gcc-c++ rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir
pushd .
cd /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

Cross-compilation for Android:

Basically, pre-installed Android tools are needed. See wiki for details

Servo builds its own copy of Rust, so there is no need to provide a Rust compiler.

Building

Servo cannot be built in-tree; you must create a directory in which to run configure and make and place the build artifacts.

git clone https://github.com/mozilla/servo.git
cd servo
mkdir -p build && cd build
../configure
make && make check
./servo ../src/test/html/about-mozilla.html

###Building for Android target

git clone https://github.com/mozilla/servo.git
cd servo
mkdir -p build && cd build
../configure --target=arm-linux-androideabi --android-cross-path=<Android toolchain path> --android-ndk-path=<Android NDK path> --android-sdk-path=<Android SDK path>
make
(or make package)

Running

Commandline Arguments

  • -p INTERVAL turns on the profiler and dumps info to the console every INTERVAL seconds
  • -s SIZE sets the tile size for rendering; defaults to 512
  • -z disables all graphical output; useful for running JS / layout tests

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Ctrl-L opens a dialog to browse to a new URL (Mac only currently)
  • Ctrl-- zooms out
  • Ctrl-= zooms in
  • Backspace goes backwards in the history
  • Shift-Backspace goes forwards in the history
  • Esc exits servo

Developing

There are lots of make targets you can use:

  • make clean - cleans Servo and its dependencies, but not Rust
  • make clean-rust - cleans Rust
  • make clean-servo - only cleans Servo itself (code in src/components)
  • make clean-DEP - cleans the dependency DEP. e.g. make clean-rust-opengles
  • make bindings - generate the Rust WebIDL bindings
  • make DEP - builds only the specified dependency. e.g. make rust-opengles
  • make check-DEP - build and run tests for specified dependency
  • make package - build and make app package for specific OS. e.g. apk file of Android

The make check-* targets for running tests are listed here