I and a few others have been poking at our widget layer for the past few weeks, looking at adding Qt support.  There was an earlier attempt at a Qt backend, but it never really got maintained, and there wasn’t much interest in it back then.  Recently, though, Qt has made great strides on embedded [...]

More to come on Canvas 3D in a bit, but I wanted to post that I’ve (finally!) updated the Canvas 3D extension to work with the latest Firefox 3 betas — will work with the latest nightlies, and should work with 3.0b5 as well.  You can grab it from its new home at addons.mozilla.org, which [...]

As a former Windows user on my MBP, I had half of my 160gb disk allocated to Windows and the other half to MacOS X.  This worked fine for quite a while, but now that I have a 30GB Linux VM on my Mac partition, things started getting tight very quickly.  I was terrified: I [...]

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 [...]