WebRender newsletter #22

The closer we get to shipping WebRender, the harder it is for me to take the time to go through commit logs and write the newsletter. But this time is special. Yesterday we enabled WebRender by default on Firefox Nightly (🎉🎉🎉) for a subset of the users: Desktop Nvidia GPUs on Windows 10. This represents …

WebRender newsletter #21

Hi there, WebRender's newsletter is here, delayed again by some vacation time sprinkled with a fair amount of the traditional "I'm busy" excuse. It's been a while so there is a lot below (without counting the items I probably missed in the overwhelming amount of stuff that went into WebRender and Gecko since the last …

WebRender newsletter #20

Newsletter number twenty is here, delayed again by a combination of days off and the bi-annual Mozilla AllHands which took place last week in San Francisco. A big highlight in the WebRender side is the work on porting all primitives to the brush system approaching completion. Individually, porting each primitive doesn't sound like much but …

WebRender newsletter #19

I skipped a newsletter again (I'm trying to put publish one every two weeks or so), sorry! As usual a lot of fixes and a few performance improvement, and sometimes both the same time. For example the changes around image and gradient repetition were primarily motivated by bugs we were encountering when dealing with repeated …

WebRender newsletter #18

WebRender's 18th newsletter is here, with its usual share of bug fixes and a few performance improvements. Just after the previous newsletter was published, Patrick Walton landed an experimental integration of pathfinder's text renderer in WebRender, that can draw native-looking text on Mac using the GPU. The pathfinder integration is taking shape although it is …

WebRender newsletter #17

Bonsoir ! WebRender's seventeenth newsletter is here. The biggest highlight of this couple of weeks is without hesitation the landing of Jeff's blob image invalidation work. Months of hard work went into what grew into a reimplementation of a decent portion of FrameLayerBuilder for blob images and will improve SVG rendering performance quite a bit …

WebRender newsletter #16

Greetings! 16th newsletter inbound, with some exciting fixes. Oh yeah, fixes again and again, and spoiler alert: this will remain the main topic for a little while. So what's exciting about it this time around? For one, Heftig, Martin Stránský and Snorp figured out what was causing rendering to be so broken with nvidia GPUs …