On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Levi Weintraub <le...@google.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Levi Weintraub <le...@google.com> > wrote: > >> > WebKittens, > >> > > >> > We're planning to wrap up our conversion of the RenderTree to subpixel > >> > units > >> > next week. We've created a the following wiki page to help explain the > >> > changes we are making: https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/LayoutUnit If you > >> > work > >> > on the rendering code, please take a look and talk to Emil and me if > you > >> > have any questions. > >> > > >> > This will effect a large number of layout test expectations as well as > >> > some > >> > platform interfaces. If you are working on or maintaining a port other > >> > than > >> > Apple, Qt, and Chromium, please touch bases with us. > >> > >> We've been talking about turning on mock scroll bars for Chromium. > >> Would it make sense to do that at the same time to minimize the number > >> of baseline updates? > > > > It would allow us to make only one WebKit sheriff's life miserable > instead > > of two, but the changes don't really relate in any other meaningful way. > > I meant it would let us update the PNGs once instead of twice. > > Of course. We're only looking at something on the order of 500-600 layout test expectation updates, which I believe is quite a bit smaller than the mock scrollbar update, but we're totally interested in saving this effort. Who should we talk to about aligning these changes? > Adam > > > >> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Levi Weintraub <le...@chromium.org> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> WebKittens, > >> >> > >> >> As you may know, Emil and I have been diligently working on getting > >> >> subpixel layout up and running in WebKit. After much testing, we > >> >> settled on a fixed point implementation instead of floats; we're > happy > >> >> to discuss how we arrived at this decision. We're currently in a > state > >> >> where we pass most of the layout tests and many (but not all) of the > >> >> remaining failures are due to rounding differences that are > desirable. > >> >> > >> >> As such, we've moved our efforts to a public branch on the WebKit.org > >> >> svn server, and would love early feedback and advice. Our branch > >> >> currently runs the following ports: Mac, Qt, Chromium-Linux, and > >> >> Chromium-Mac. Any advice or help bringing up other platforms would be > >> >> greatly appreciated. > >> >> > >> >> You can check our work out here: > >> >> http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/branches/subpixellayout > >> >> (currently branched from r98654 and we'll continue to track head by a > >> >> day or two) > >> >> > >> >> Thanks, > >> >> Emil and Levi > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > webkit-dev mailing list > >> > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > >> > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >> > > > > > >
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