After a weekend hack session with Øyvind Kolås, I got WebKit/GTK+‘s Cairo backend rendering straight to OpenGL with Cairo’s new OpenVG backend and ShivaVG: At first the colours were a bit off and performance was nothing to write home about. But Øyvind promptly pushed a fix and cooked up a patch to prevent static images [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Advances in Web typography
If you’re running a WebKit nightly, your browser supports two new ways of specifying custom fonts. CSS2 ‘WebFonts’ With WebFonts you can define custom font faces by passing a URL to the font file: @font-face { font-family: ‘Bitstream Vera Sans’; src: url(’http://www.freedesktop.org/~alp/tmp/Vera.ttf’) format(truetype); } h1 { font-family: ‘Bitstream Vera Sans’, sans-serif; } The font [...]
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Putting the Web in GTK+
The word is out. I’ll be coordinating with Epiphany developer Christian Persch to see how the GTK+ team can put Web functionality in or alongside the UI toolkit in the weeks leading up to the GTK+ Berlin hackfest 2008. We’ll be studying existing toolkits featuring Web widgets and considering what changes might be necessary to [...]
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