2008/12/18 Dan <[email protected]>: > > At 2:23 PM -0600 12/18/2008, Hunter Fuller wrote: >> >>and I know Firefox doesn't use QuickTime to render anything. > > Sorry. That is incorrect. The graphics libraries in OS X all use > primatives from QuickTime. That would be why Firefox has the > QuickTime framework, and all its sub pieces, mapped and open.
I think these primitives are simply OS X primitives that Apple likes to call "QuickTime" for marketing reasons. I am thinking of QuickTime in the sense of playing audio and video using the QuickTime rendering engine. > > LIkewise Finder etc. > > If you're seeing a lag with some of Finder's more graphical > displays... that's because something has to go fetch those previews > (or big icons) from the files. That's a lot of file i/o and cacheing > and rendering and .... all done by .... QuickTime. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth > > > > -- -hackmiester --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
