Comments on: A Little More Cairo, Just For You

By: Asko Kauppi

Asko Kauppi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:21:52 +0000

Cool. I’d like to get a subscription to your blog, but was too stupid to see, where/how?

Making Cairo work well with OS X – and taking full advantage of it – is close to my mind (would be too nerdy to say ‘heart’?). Unfortunately, it seems rather difficult to even find a working 1.6.4 based XCode/Aqua GUI sample to begin with.

Can you lead to any?

By: Matthias

Matthias — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:16:46 +0000

VanillaMozilla: you are probably looking at a scale version of both images. Hit the green arrow icon at the bottom to see them unscaled. Then the difference should be obvious.

By: VanillaMozilla

VanillaMozilla — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:18:51 +0000

On second thought, I was commenting on text. The part that I’m certain is graphics does look much better on the Firefox side. And I discovered also that the whole (graphics) screenshot–especially the main text–looks a lot better on a CRT than on an LCD. Go firgure. So I guess I’m not so sure I can tell how it looks. Fortunately, I don’t need to. Good work — I think. :)

By: VanillaMozilla

VanillaMozilla — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:12:05 +0000

I don’t know about this. Both screen shots look like garbage, with pieces of letters missing and vertical lines narrowed. I am running a Dell ultrasharp LCD at native resolution, 1280×1024.

By: Mark Dowling

Mark Dowling — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:48:01 +0000

IE renders an MS page and what’s at the bottom left? “Done, but with errors on page.”

By: Laurens Holst

Laurens Holst — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:05:38 +0000

Hm, well, I tried looking at other sites, also installed the latest nightly… Maybe it’s me, but my higher DPI settings don’t seem to affect Firefox’s zoom. Scaling doesn’t get applied by default in Firefox.

By: Laurens Holst

Laurens Holst — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:50:54 +0000

I noticed the difference as soon as I installed beta 4! :). It’s a really nice improvement, glad you were able to get it in before the release.

But Firefox now also respects the DPI setting? I didn’t know that, I thought it was my increased default font sizes that did it, that’s a great new feature! (speaking as a 120dpi display user too :)).

By: daniele_dll

daniele_dll — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:20:51 +0000

This is a really interesting news! Hovewer i don’t think will be a so much high speed difference between sse2 and sse3/sse4, probably can be more useful the rendering using full multicore technology

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:49:51 +0000

I find that pictures look jaggy when I zoom out four or five steps from default zoom. That should be easier to deal with than zooming in, shouldn’t it?

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:55:10 +0000

Have you guys looks at LLVM ( llvm.org ) for SSE2 ad related things? LLVM is a “processor independent assember” that’s converted into the best native assembler (SSE etc) at runtime. It’s for example used in Apple’s software OpenGL renderer.