There were a few things that I left out of my previous post about Cairo status (as a few people pointed out), and I wanted to highlight them here.
For the past two months, Antoine Azar and Frédéric Plourde have been working for Mozilla, cranking away at both Cairo and pixman.  They started out with a [...]

One of the things that I’ve worked on for the past while is a Quartz backend for Cairo — mainly for Mozilla, but also to show that Cairo has a great API that maps well to existing 2D APIs.  Cairo is a great 2D portability layer, ensuring that rich 2D graphics can be portable.  I’m [...]

From a transcript of the SXSW browser panel:
Chris [Wilson]: The thing that I’m really passionate about is web standards. Silverlight is a part of the web just like PDF and plaintext are part of the web.
Uh, it’s what now?  (Read the rest of the panel transcript, it’s pretty good.)

Some of you may have noticed that the Firefox 3 nightly builds have felt a lot snappier since a few weeks ago.  There’s an interesting story in that, one that I finally have time to write up.  We’ve had a number of bugs on the Mac where people were complaining of bad performance compared to [...]

I’ve recently rediscovered Greasemonkey, and have used it to make two small fixes that have been annoying me for a while.  A few people have asked, so I thought I’d share the user scripts.  The first does some postprocessing of the tinderbox waterfall page, shrinking the Talos columns by making them use more of the [...]