WebRender newsletter #36

Hi everyone! This week's highlight is Glenn's picture caching work which almost landed about a week ago and landed again a few hours ago. Fingers crossed! If you don't know what picture caching means and are interested, you can read about it in the introduction of this newsletter's season 01 episode 28. On a more …

WebRender newsletter #35

Bonsoir! Another week, another newsletter. I stealthily published WebRender on crates.io this week. This doesn't mean anything in terms of API stability and whatnot, but it makes it easier for people to use WebRender in their own rust projects. Many asked for it so there it is. Everyone is welcome to use it, find bugs, …

WebRender newsletter #34

Happy new year! I'll introduce WebRender's 34th newsletter with a rather technical overview of a neat trick we call primitive segmentation. In previous posts I wrote about how we deal with batching and how we use the depth buffer both as a culling mechanism and as a way to save memory bandwidth. As a result, …

WebRender newsletter #33

Hi! The newsletter skipped a week because of Mozilla's bi-annual allhands which took place in Orlando last week. We'll probably skip a few others in December as a lot of the gfx folks are taking some time off. Before I get to the usual change list, I'll continue answering the questions nic4r asked in the …

WebRender newsletter #32

Hey there! Did you hear this? Me neither. The 32nd episode of WebRender's newsletter made its way to your screen without a sound. In the previous episode, nic4r asked in the comments section a lot of technical and interesting questions. There is a lot to cover so I'll start by answering a couple here by …

WebRender newsletter #31

Greetings! I'll introduce WebRender's 31st newsletter with a few words about batching. Efficiently submitting work to GPUs isn't as straightforward as one might think. It is not unusual for a CPU renderer to go through each graphic primitive (a blue filled circle, a purple stroked path, and image, etc.) in z-order to produce the final …

WebRender newsletter #30

Hi! This is the 30th issue of WebRender's most famous newsletter. At the top of each newsletter I try to dedicate a few paragraphs to some historical/technical details of the project. Today I'll write about blob images. WebRender currently doesn't support the full set of graphics primitives required to render all web pages. The focus …