Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As an example of the kind of development that needs 3D hardware > acceleration: > http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6498
Why are they interested in Cairo rather than any 2d-friendly vector library? Can someone translate that page for non-graphics-fans? [...] > version of Mozilla that requires GL, and various toolkits, font > rendering systems, etc. There is a GL X server in heavy development, and > obviously most games but also many multimedia programs use GL for video. > You just can't run a fully GL desktop off a software runtime, and it > looks like everyone is going GL... Is everyone going GL because they are ignorant or just willing to ignore what looks like a new Java Trap problem to get the benefits? What is the scale of this problem? A few cards have been mentioned, but the messages make it sound like they're a small minority of 3d hardware on sale today. Are there similar sites to r300.sf.net for other manufacturers, or any overview site? Thanks, -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
