Re: Project Silk on Desktop

2015-03-13 Thread Mike de Boer
Yeah, Jared makes a good point - exactly the reason why I reacted so enthusiastically to this announcement is that I’d never heard of Project Silk, even though I read HN (headlines, not comments ;-) ) on a daily basis. Or maybe it did, but perhaps it being all about B2G and sort of like

Re: Project Silk on Desktop

2015-03-13 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Mike Conley mcon...@mozilla.com wrote: Perhaps its worth talking to comms to get their input on whether or not it's a good time. But I have to agree with Jared and Mike - I think showing progress, especially on the part of performance (perceived or not) can

Re: Project Silk on Desktop

2015-03-12 Thread Mike de Boer
Congratulations to all! This sounds like a massive improvement to our rendering pipeline, definitely worth of some PR effort! Is that being considered? Is this expected to have an impact on Talos numbers? I’d expect them to improve, but that probably also depends on the hardware used for the

Re: Project Silk on Desktop

2015-03-12 Thread Mason Chang
Hi Mike, This sounds like a massive improvement to our rendering pipeline, definitely worth of some PR effort! Is that being considered? We’ve had a PR effort before when Silk landed on b2g. It hit hacker news and received over 10K views IIRC on mozilla hacks, so I’m not keen on doing

Re: Project Silk on Desktop

2015-03-12 Thread Gervase Markham
On 11/03/15 18:12, Mason Chang wrote: Project Silk (http://www.masonchang.com/blog/2015/1/22/project-silk), which aligns rendering to vsync, will be landing over the next couple of weeks (bug 1071275). You should expect smoother animations and scrolling while browsing the web. It'll land in 4

Re: Project Silk on Desktop

2015-03-12 Thread Mason Chang
Yeah it is, but I don’t really want to do another PR run when lots of people have already read about Silk on b2g. Feels spammy to me to do another one just a month after the previous one, but that’s my 2 cents. Mason On Mar 12, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote:

Re: Project Silk on Desktop

2015-03-12 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Mason Chang mch...@mozilla.com wrote: Yeah it is, but I don’t really want to do another PR run when lots of people have already read about Silk on b2g. Feels spammy to me to do another one just a month after the previous one, but that’s my 2 cents. I see,

Re: Project Silk on Desktop

2015-03-12 Thread Jared Wein
Within the small circle of Mozilla contributors it may feel spammy or repetitive, but I wouldn't be surprised for people outside of the Mozilla project to think of b2g and Firefox desktop as both separate userbases and separate impacts. On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Mason Chang

Project Silk on Desktop

2015-03-11 Thread Mason Chang
Hi all, Project Silk (http://www.masonchang.com/blog/2015/1/22/project-silk), which aligns rendering to vsync, will be landing over the next couple of weeks (bug 1071275). You should expect smoother animations and scrolling while browsing the web. It'll land in 4 parts, with the vsync