On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Adam Langley <a...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Dean McNamee <de...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> UI elements like buttons are different, my understanding is that (at
>> least in theory) it should be possible for all of those images of the
>> different states to live on the X server, so they don't need to be
>> sent over the network for every expose. I'm not sure how we would do
>> this with a Skia based drawing pipeline.
>
> Although a displaylist like interface would be very nice, it's
> basically not going to happen.
>
> However, I wouldn't worry about drawing the UI elements as a bitmap
> too much. Firstly, the number of pixels isn't that large. The
> TabStrip, Omnibox, buttons etc probably take up < 5% of the screen,
This is a good point. It probably doesn't matter what we do with the
tabstrip and toolbar when the page is rendered to a giant DIB. While I
would like to do a displaylist-like painting for the page, I don't see
this happening in a way that can be reasonably remotable on X.
Brett
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