[cairo] Mozilla on Cairo

[Robert O'Callahan]

On 4/22/05, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:23:03 +1200, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> > I've got Cairo-based Mozilla into a barely usable state.
> 
> Hey, that is fantastic news. Well done! Is cairo rendering everything
> in the screenshot, or just the main content pane?


Everything. (Except for the window manager borders, of course.)

> Also, this page doesn't really show it, but we are running into the 
> problem of
> > antialiased fills causing artifacts where two shapes share a
> > non-pixel-aligned edge. I really want to add a mode to cairo_t that 
> turns
> > antialiasing off. What are the chances that that would be accepted?
> 
> We could add such a thing, (David Reveman even made a patch and sent
> it to the list once). But for this particular problem, I'd be much
> more inclined to implement (or accept a patch for) a full-scene
> antialiasing surface. The overall quality wouldn't be as good as
> standard cairo antialiasing (for scenes without the seam problems),
> but it would solve the seam problem in a way that would look a lot
> better than disabling antialiasing completely.


If I understand correctly, that solution would be a combination of "disable 
coverage-based antialiasing" and "render to a larger surface, then scale 
down with pixel averaging". That sounds good, but on low-end machines we'll 
probably want the scale factor to be 1x1. Also, I think it really would be 
good to be able to decide on per-shape (or ideally per-edge) basis whether 
coverage-based antialiasing is on or not; there are some shapes (edges) 
where we know there won't be adjacent edges, or we don't care. Also, are you 
sure this should be a new surface type? It seems to me that we want this 
feature to be applicable to glitz and xlib and so on.

I have another question, about image drawing. All our image drawing uses 
patterns because we support drawing a subrectangle of the image, and the 
easiest way to do that is to use the pattern matrix. Would it be faster (or 
otherwise desirable) to use show_image_surface when the subrectangle is the 
full image?

Rob
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