04:20 pm, 28 Apr 06
interesting cairo thread
I was asked a while back why anybody uses Cairo instead of OpenVG, and while I wrote a kinda half-assed explanation, the same question apparently came up on the AGG (antigrain geometry, which is probably only meaningful to you if you follow this stuff anyway so I won't attempt to define beyond that) list, and in particular why Firefox, Gnome, etc. have moved to use Cairo instead of some other 2d API.
Anyway, Carl Worth from Cairo eventually found and responded to the thread, and there's a comment from a Firefox developer as well.
So: start reading here.
(I don't follow many free software projects anymore -- I finally unsubscribed from my last Gnome list a few months ago. I mostly follow the danga lists and the Cairo one.)
Anyway, Carl Worth from Cairo eventually found and responded to the thread, and there's a comment from a Firefox developer as well.
So: start reading here.
(I don't follow many free software projects anymore -- I finally unsubscribed from my last Gnome list a few months ago. I mostly follow the danga lists and the Cairo one.)
On the off chance you read mailing lists like I do: subscribe, read for a bit, watch a few thousand messages build up, go to delete them all, find something interesting in one of them before they go, start reading again for a bit -- you might find reading through GMANE useful -- they provide NNTP and RSS access to mailing lists.
Hell yes. I read everything through Gmane. (with the notable exception of Mozilla's mailing lists, since they provide their own NNTP server.)