On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Brian Smith <br...@briansmith.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> > wrote: > > I've already given my feedback on the cairo mailing list. Summary: Moz2D > is > > the right thing for us, and probably for other application frameworks, > but > > for applications that just want to draw their stuff on the screen or to > > print, cairo might be a better fit. Anyway ti doesn't really matter to us > > what the C++ people do. > > It might matter to us in the context of asm.js. Yes, that's worth thinking about. > It seems likely that > if something like Moz2D became the standard API then we'd be able to > optimize it more easily than we'd be able to optimize an API that > worked much differently than Moz2D. > No, because asm.js code must go through Web platform APIs, and the Web platform API you would implement cairo bindings on top of is canvas-2D, and that's fixed in stone --- and we have it implemented on top of Moz2D, and it works well, better than when we had canvas-2D implemented on cairo. Also, if Moz2D seems like the right thing for other application > frameworks too, then that is useful feedback to pass back to the C++ > committee. > I did. Rob -- Jtehsauts tshaei dS,o n" Wohfy Mdaon yhoaus eanuttehrotraiitny eovni le atrhtohu gthot sf oirng iyvoeu rs ihnesa.r"t sS?o Whhei csha iids teoa stiheer :p atroa lsyazye,d 'mYaonu,r "sGients uapr,e tfaokreg iyvoeunr, 'm aotr atnod sgaoy ,h o'mGee.t" uTph eann dt hwea lmka'n? gBoutt uIp waanndt wyeonut thoo mken.o w _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
