Re: Intent to explore: A declarative low level graphics API that has a simple mapping to CSS

2018-05-03 Thread Joe Walker
We’ve evaluated the Metalhead proposal and decided not to proceed with it. Metalhead proposed a really interesting architecture that could plug into existing web frameworks to increase frame rates, however by by-passing the DOM, the proposal had the potential to be misused to remove more of the

Re: Intent to explore: A declarative low level graphics API that has a simple mapping to CSS

2018-05-01 Thread Victor Porof
Hello again :) Appreciate the great feedback so far! So I'd like to clear a few things up. There are many unknowns here which need exploring before moving further. Particularly we want to retain as much of the semantic model of the web while still allowing native-like frame rates. I'd like to

Re: Intent to explore: A declarative low level graphics API that has a simple mapping to CSS

2018-04-30 Thread Domenic Denicola
Hi Victor, I'd love to read about this, but am not a Mozillan. Is there a reason the document is being kept private? ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Intent to explore: A declarative low level graphics API that has a simple mapping to CSS

2018-04-30 Thread Victor Porof
Hey folks, Last quarter I've been drafting a roadmap to explore the advantages of a new web API, fundamentally different from the DOM. It's aiming to expose similar core web features, but with predictible cost and performance, in a declarative immediate-mode manner. This research was driven by a