Platform/GFX/Firefox.next: Difference between revisions

| For best possible performance on Fennec layers are required to be accelerated on Fennec.

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| Important feature that's still not default on X11. Matt's patches in bug 640082 are a large part of the work there, but there remains the Flash crash and probably some reftest failures.

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| There's a good WebGL conformance test suite, and we already pass 98% of it. Make it 100%.

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| Even though it's not a normative part of the spec, WebGL defaults to antialiasing, Chrome already supports it, and it's very visible for the end-user

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| This is a massively useful extension, Chrome supports it, and some cool WebGL apps require it.

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| Not using ANGLE can allow for a great performance boost, given good OpenGL drivers and D3D interop.

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| In order to get a vote, Mozilla must have someone attend the weekly WebGL concall every week. That's important. WebGL 2.0 will get decided this year. So we need more than one person to closely follow WebGL and regularly attend the concall.

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| Replacing cairo with a more modern, flexible graphics library is deemed needed for a variety of performance & long term multiprocess needs

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| With the release of IE9 and Flash 10.2 IE has created an easier method for windowless plugin drawing. For performance and other reasons (such as the current elaborate background copying/alpha recovery scheme) a more efficient drawing model for windowless plugins is required.

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| CSS 3D transforms need to be supported by layers for good performance when we start supporting them.

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