Hello, WHAT?
Jan. 27th, 2006 02:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roadrunnertwiceHoly nutsack! Cairo is a fuckin' go for Mozilla 1.9! It's been an option for a while, for those trunk users who like to roll their own, but evidently they're getting ready to have it on by default. In the short term, this is going to mean straight-up fire and brimstone on the trunk, so y'all should keep using 1.5 for a few months. In the long term, it means:
For users:
-Your browser gets to suck power off your 3d graphics card—if you have anything reasonably modern, you get paid in white-hot blistering speed; if not, you get something roughly the same as you have now.
-Save as PDF, for free.
-Prettier rendering.
-The heartwarming sight of QuickDraw lying in a shallow grave in the desert (Mac only).
For dorks:
-The capability to do shit like this. (You know you won't use that, but the fact that it's possible illustrates a lot of what's right about this.)
-They're gutting the graphics code—now that it's all done in Cairo, there's much less to maintain. I guess. It's not like I do any of this shit.
-"...modern 2D graphics capabilities (such as filling, stroking and clipping to paths, general affine transforms, and ubiquitious support for alpha transparency)."
What I'm wondering is, are they seriously aiming for Firefox 2.0 with this? I thought 2.0 was going to be mostly a total UI rewrite and 3.0 was the target for this sort of madness.
For users:
-Your browser gets to suck power off your 3d graphics card—if you have anything reasonably modern, you get paid in white-hot blistering speed; if not, you get something roughly the same as you have now.
-Save as PDF, for free.
-Prettier rendering.
-The heartwarming sight of QuickDraw lying in a shallow grave in the desert (Mac only).
For dorks:
-The capability to do shit like this. (You know you won't use that, but the fact that it's possible illustrates a lot of what's right about this.)
-They're gutting the graphics code—now that it's all done in Cairo, there's much less to maintain. I guess. It's not like I do any of this shit.
-"...modern 2D graphics capabilities (such as filling, stroking and clipping to paths, general affine transforms, and ubiquitious support for alpha transparency)."
What I'm wondering is, are they seriously aiming for Firefox 2.0 with this? I thought 2.0 was going to be mostly a total UI rewrite and 3.0 was the target for this sort of madness.