Re: [dev-servo] RFC: Making stacking contexts more first-class

2014-11-09 Thread Patrick Walton
Some other things that come to mind: * This approach makes it trivially possible to incrementalize display list construction at the granularity of stacking contexts. Which, admittedly, is not a great level of granularity for many common scenarios, but it would at least handle stuff like

Re: [dev-servo] RFC: Making stacking contexts more first-class

2014-11-09 Thread Patrick Walton
On 11/9/14 4:31 PM, Josh Matthews wrote: I don't have any experience with these matters, but would this impact our ability to support the will-change CSS property? As I understand it, in Gecko the property basically means layerize this. `will-change` creates a new stacking context per the

Re: [dev-servo] RFC: Making stacking contexts more first-class

2014-11-09 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Patrick Walton pcwal...@mozilla.com wrote: On 11/9/14 4:31 PM, Josh Matthews wrote: I don't have any experience with these matters, but would this impact our ability to support the will-change CSS property? As I understand it, in Gecko the property basically