WebRender newsletter #29

To introduce this week's newsletter I'll write about culling. Culling refers to discarding invisible content and is performed at several stages of the rendering pipeline. During frame building on the CPU we go through all primitives and discard the ones that are off-screen by computing simple rectangle intersections. As a result we avoid transferring a …

WebRender newsletter #28

WebRender's 28th newsletter is here, and as requested, today's little story is about picture caching. It's a complex topic so I had to simplify a lot here. WebRender's original strategy for rendering web pages was "We re-render everything each frame". Quite a bold approach when all modern browsers' graphics engines are built around the idea …

WebRender newsletter #27

🎉 WebRender is in beta 🎉! There are still a number of blocking bugs so WebRender will stay on beta for a few trains until it has received enough polish to hit the release population. This is an important milestone for everyone working on the project and the main piece of news outside of the …

WebRender newsletter #26

Here comes the 26th issue of WebRender's newsletter. Let's see what we have this week: Notable WebRender and Gecko changes Bobby reduced GPU memory usage on Windows by making it so ANGLE doesn't allocate mipmaps for all textures. Bobby further reduced GPU memory usage by sharing the depth buffer for all intermediate targets. Andrew improved …

WebRender newsletter #25

As usual, WebRender is making rapid progress. The team is working hard on nailing the remaining few blockers for enabling WebRender in Beta, after which focus will shift to the Release blockers. It's hard to single out a particular highlight this week as the majority of bugs resolved were very impactful. Notable WebRender and Gecko …

WebRender newsletter #24

Hi there, this your twenty fourth WebRender newsletter. A lot of work in progress this week, so the change list is pretty short. To compensate I added a list of noteworthy ongoing work which hasn't landed yet is but will probably land soon and gives a rough idea of what's keeping us busy. Without further …

WebRender newsletter #23

Bonjour everyone! Here comes the twenty third installment of WebRender's very best newsletter. This time I'm trying something a bit different. Instead of going through each pull request and bugzilla entry that landed since the last post, I'm only sourcing information from the team's weekly meeting. As a result only the most important items make …