glyph-pixmaps Carl‘s glyph-pixmaps work has been merged to xserver. This provides a speedup for text rendering by hashing and caching glyph data to avoid constant re-uploads. Eric Anholt breaks it down for us. Cairo and XShm Shared memory has had a bad rap when it comes to X11, and it’s been found in the past [...]
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WebKit/Gtk+ gets a reviewer, and Canvas support
WebKit/Gtk+ gets a reviewer I am now an official WebKit reviewer. This should help speed up development of the Gtk+ port. Thanks go to Apple and the WebKit team! Canvas support using Cairo A few hours ago I landed support for the Canvas HTML element, rendered using Cairo (just like everything else in the browser [...]
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All good things
Just about two years ago when I was living in Edinburgh, university researcher Harry Halpin and I set up a space in the basement of an old church/the Forest Cafe with the goals of promoting and supporting Free Software and independent media. Within a few weeks, I’d sat down with colleague Ronan Huggard, and after [...]
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WebKit/Gtk+ at LinuxConf Europe 2007
Yesterday’s talk on WebKit/Gtk+ at LinuxConf Europe was well received, and I was particularly impressed by the turnout considering that it was scheduled against Linus’ git BOF next door. The audience had more questions than there was time for, but those that I was able to answer were split mostly between questions about mobile performance/footprint [...]
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WebKit Maemo port, N800 and the EAL
I’ve been working with George Wright the last few days to integrate the WebKit/Gtk+ browser engine into Nokia’s recently announced EAL (Engine Abstraction Layer). WebKit/Gtk+ will soon be joining Opera and Mozilla as a well-supported alternative browser for the Maemo platform. I believe we are the first to provide SVG support: It’s exciting to [...]
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GUADEC: The first day
Sunday came and went in Birmingham. This was an opportunity to meet many of my colleagues face to face for the first time. Managed D-Bus talk went very well. Huge interest from the usual suspects, but also from the wider GNOME community. Packed room, engaging audience. Sundays are usually quite boring, but this one was an [...]
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WebKit/Gtk+ is coming
The WebKit Gtk+/Cairo port has recently had a burst of activity — it’s really starting to shape up. I’ve recently had the opportunity to coordinate my efforts on the port and in the last couple of weeks we’ve provided patches for over a dozen bug reports (often requests for enhancement) . Most importantly, we’ve decided to [...]
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