WebRender newsletter #8

Better late than never for the 8th newsletter. On the WebRender side, things keep getting faster and look smoother which is always nice. On Gecko's side the work is, as always, hard to summarize but there are some self contained bits worth getting excited about like the great progress on reducing the overhead of building …

WebRender newsletter #7

We are making steady progress on WebRender and its Gecko integration. This newsletter doesn't show much of the higher level work happening in the background, so I'll drop a few notes about them here: I have been working for a while on getting the architecture in place to respect frame consistency which is a rule …

WebRender newsletter #6

Hi there, the 6th newsletter has arrived. Without further ado: Notable WebRender changes Glenn fixed rounded clips on rotated rectangles. Glenn reduced the GPU allocations for intermediate render targets. Glenn added color emoji support on mac. Glenn fixed some of the filters to work with pre-multiplied alpha. Notable Gecko changes Kats, Ethan, Morris and Peter …

WebRender newsletter #5

Hi there, time for newsletter number five. An important detail went under the radar (and didn't get featured in the newsletter whenever it happened): APZ (async panning and zooming) got enabled by default with WebRender. If you are one of the fearless nightly users who is trying WebRender out, please reset the preference layers.async-pan-zoom.enabled to …

Introduction to WebRender – Part 1 – Browsers today

WebRender, is a 2D renderer for the web. It started as Servo's graphics engine, and we are in the process of integrating it in Firefox. I have been meaning for a while to write about what WebRender is, how it works and how its architecture is different from what Firefox and other browsers currently do. …

WebRender newsletter #4

We skipped the newsletter for a few weeks (sorry about that!), but we are back. I don't have a lot to report today, in part because I don't yet have a good workflow to track the interesting changes (especially in gecko) so I am most likely missing a lot of them, and a lot of …

WebRender newsletter #3

WebRender work is coming along nicely. I haven't managed to properly track what landed this week so the summary below is somewhat short. This does little justice to the great stuff that is happening on the side. For example I won't list the many bugs that Sotaro finds and fixes on a daily basis, or …