servo/webrender on Hacker News

…added as a backend) but a note that WebRender is maintained. See Servo's most recent 0.68 branch ( https://github.com/servo/webrender/tree/0.68 ) and also ongoing upstream development in the Firefox repository…

comment by nicoburns · 2025-10-20 · in Servo v0.0.1

…approximate distance to an ellipse is to use a trick I came up with based on a paper from 1994 [1]: https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/c4bd5b47d8f5cd684334... Unless it's changed recently, this is what Firefox uses for border radius.…

comment by pcwalton · 2025-08-04 · in Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

…I didn't think too much about sandboxing, accessibility, network or whatnot. Just a fun idea… [0]: https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/c4bd5b47d8f5cd684334...

comment by paulrouget · 2025-02-28 · in WASM Wayland Web (WWW)

Firefox also sends it to DirectWrite, the native API. https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/master/wr_glyph_rast...

comment by fxtentacle · 2024-02-04 · in AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET

This source code: https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/master/wr_glyph_rast... suggests to me that the glyph rasterization (which is the CPU-limiting factor for text rendering) in WebRender (which is the new FF 93+ GPU-accelerated…

comment by fxtentacle · 2024-02-04 · in AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET

…freetype) does regular old glyph cache built in CPU texture rendering. Neither involve GPU shaping. https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/master/wr_glyph_rast... Still trying to understand what earth-shattering, "leverage" levering…

comment by riceart · 2023-05-15 · in macOS Apps in Rust

…[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/memory-model.html [3] https://github.com/servo/webrender [4] https://docs.rs/lyon/latest/lyon/

comment by Ygg2 · 2023-05-15 · in macOS Apps in Rust

…are different, an error is thrown. Also true in rust. For an example of what this looks like: https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/54b725be37f13b166946... You haven't described anything different between go and rust in your comment…

comment by TheDong · 2021-10-11 · in Rust: Does the published crate match the upstream source?

…Which reminds me that people were trying to use webrender[1] to build native apps in Rust. [1] https://github.com/servo/webrender

comment by conradev · 2021-08-27 · in Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

…The GPU is used for the actual graphical rendering down the line -- compositing and such[1]. [0] https://github.com/servo/webrender [1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...

comment by lkbm · 2020-10-17 · in HTML5 Accelerator Card

…Servo/WebRender folks maintain such a list of driver bugs with workarounds, you may find useful: https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki/Driver-issues

comment by leeoniya · 2020-02-18 · in Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug

Really hoping WebRender, and eventually Pathfinder make a big difference here. https://github.com/servo/webrender https://github.com/pcwalton/pathfinder

comment by markdog12 · 2019-05-30 · in Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author

…even begin to scratch the surface of OpenGL bugs on Apple devices. Many more are documented here: https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki/Driver-issues

comment by pcwalton · 2019-05-21 · in The State of Apple's Developer Documentation

…for updates on the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 Edit: Also relevant: https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/3115

comment by theferalrobot · 2019-05-05 · in Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

…runs in the window server on relatively recent versions of macOS) and Android SurfaceFlinger. https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/3115 On the Mac you can pick up performance improvements now by opting out of the OS's window scaling…

comment by GeekyBear · 2019-03-13 · in Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web

…of driver issues that Mozilla has run into while developing webrender is also impressively long: https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki/Driver-issues

comment by 43920 · 2019-02-28 · in Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript

https://github.com/servo/webrender/tree/master/webrender/src

comment by Sammi · 2018-10-26 · in WebRender is in beta

Yeah: https://github.com/servo/webrender

comment by proaralyst · 2018-10-26 · in WebRender is in beta

…them to RON[2] as a better alternative, which has proven itself useful in WebRender captures. [1] https://github.com/servo/webrender/ [2] https://github.com/ron-rs/ron

comment by kvark · 2018-06-21 · in YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)

…later on [1]. That allows the renderer to run on Vulkan, DirectX 11 and 12, Metal and OpenGL. [1] https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/407

comment by NiLSPACE · 2018-06-21 · in Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

You can probably just pull it from GitHub: https://github.com/servo/webrender (Cargo lets you specify Git repos for dependencies.)

comment by dochtman · 2018-03-22 · in Firefox Product Roadmap

…a good fit for proper parallelized rendering. UPDATE: Ah, I see it's mentioned in the future work: https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki#future-work Vulkan? This could possibly make some of the serial steps above able to be parallelized…

comment by shmerl · 2017-10-10 · in The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank

…new pipeline should be deployed in firefox in 2018 as a part of the ongoing Quantum project. [1] https://github.com/servo/webrender [2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BTURkjYJ_uk

comment by littlestymaar · 2017-09-15 · in CSS Triggers

…That said, there are still rough edges. If you see rendering slowness, feel free to file issues on http://github.com/servo/webrender . There are no silver bullets for performance, only lots of lead bullets. I'm confident that parallelism…

comment by pcwalton · 2017-08-25 · in Off-main-thread HTML parsing in Servo

For anyone wandering what WebRender actually is or does https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki

comment by jayflux · 2017-08-18 · in WebRender newsletter

…gains probably come from multiple sources, pushing work to GPU is afaik one of the main ones. https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki Also, I'm reminded of Anandtech review of the 1st-gen rMBP: At 2880 x 1800 most interactions are smooth…

comment by zokier · 2017-08-01 · in Black Book of Graphics Programming, Special Edition (1997)

…[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6l5c94/can_we_crowdfu... [1] https://flutter.io/ [2] https://github.com/servo/webrender

comment by nicoburns · 2017-07-05 · in Rust's 2017 roadmap, six months in

…available in nightly as experimental option while they're still working on integrating stylo. https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki

comment by the8472 · 2017-06-19 · in The Intel Skylake-X Review: Core i9-7900X, i7-7820X and i7-7800X Tested

…I wouldn't be surprised to see "Best viewed in Firefox" badges start popping up everywhere. [0] https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/

comment by lewisl9029 · 2017-05-26 · in Chrome Won

…the colors, gradients, borders, shadows, rounded corners and so on in OpenGL. Look at the shaders: https://github.com/servo/webrender/tree/master/webrender/res

comment by floatboth · 2017-04-13 · in Servo nightly builds on Windows now available

…but not at this time[0]. There are likely higher priority changes which need to be made. [0] https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/186

comment by yazaddaruvala · 2017-01-25 · in Firefox 51.0

…Servo's usage of Rust is all for the rest of the stuff. We do have a component, http://github.com/servo/webrender/ , which handles rendering in particular. That indeed does the architecting of the draw commands and resource management on

comment by Manishearth · 2017-01-06 · in Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo

…load the GPU can magically parallelize. Servo's rendering stack does make extensive use of the GPU. https://github.com/servo/webrender/ (talk by patrick in https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/ ) There's also work on…

comment by Manishearth · 2017-01-05 · in Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo

…which you can make shaders read random memory ([1] for example) that I'm no longer surprised. [1]: https://github.com/servo/webrender/commit/96ac2f13b9b73dcfa0...

comment by pcwalton · 2016-12-21 · in GPU folks: we need to talk about control flow

…in taking a look at your project if you'd offer a link. :-) WebRender [1], part of Servo. [1]: https://github.com/servo/webrender

comment by pcwalton · 2016-08-12 · in AMP Is What HTML Should Have Been

…around the vertex shader limitation on weird clips Indeed! It's issue #61, filed in October 2015 :) https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/61

comment by pcwalton · 2016-02-25 · in Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS

…"We've removed painting from the bottleneck in Servo" More info about WebRender: https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki If you want try it at home, you "just" need to build servo: http://github.com/servo/servo (git clone, then ./mach buil

comment by paulrouget · 2016-02-25 · in Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS