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Servo is a rendering engine, the DOM and JS are currently provided by Gecko,



Of course, but it needs to be modular in order for users to omit parts. You may have misinterpreted my note.


The things you want to omit have nothing to do with Servo is the point of my comment. Servo's modularity is irrelevant to removing webcam access. Which incidentally I believe you can already do in both Firefox and Chrome by disabling the MediaSource API altogether.


Servo isn't strictly just the HTML+CSS part, if you have a look at the project's sources.

Modularity is relevant because if stuff isn't modular and has code paths to deal with missing functionality, you'll have a much increased burden, aka a fork.

In Firefox (and maybe Chrome, don't use, so not sure) you can disable it in the configuration but that could easily be enabled again by some script or extension.




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