GSoC project brainstorming

Student project ideas

• Continue ServiceWorker implementation
  • support HTTPS tests, run whole SW testsuite
  • FetchEvent
  • Cache
  • Client APIs
• OffscreenCanvas
  • transferrable object support for postMessage
  • actual canvas API
  • synchronization
• Accessibility experiments
  • implementing web-exposed accessibility API
  • high level documentation
  • API sketch
• CustomElements
• Responsive images
  • finish up implementation of spec-conforming image loads
  • <source>, <picture>, sizes, srcset
• MIR safe rooting analysis
  • concerns: not enough work for gsoc; might be necessary sooner.
• HTTP archive support
• areweslimyet and arewefastyet for Servo
• off main thread HTML parsing
• WebAnimations

Intern project ideas

• build a complex non-browser app in a Servo-based runtime
• HTTP memory cache and post-processed resource attachments
• Form widgets (eg. layout and interaction for <select>)
• Progressive web metrics
• Integrate Fathom into Servo and create rules that identify interstitial popups
• implement tracking for the cause of reflow by capturing JS stacks, and build tools that report the results
• Android embedding MVP - location bar, back/forward UI, on screen keyboard, etc.
• Refresh driver (rather than "make a display list every turn of the event loop")
• Event loop introspection
• Port DMD to Rust and integrate it into Servo