http://blog.vlad1.com Look, it's a tagline! Tue, 06 May 2008 19:57:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/05/06/well-isnt-that-qt/ 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 ... http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/05/01/canvas-3d-extension-update/ 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 ... http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/04/07/scary-disk-munging-success/ 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.  ... http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/03/18/a-little-more-cairo-just-for-you/ 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 ... http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/03/16/cairo-16-quartz-and-gecko/ 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.) http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/03/10/silverwhat/ 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 ... http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/02/28/finding-the-os-x-turbo-button/ 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 ... http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/02/19/a-few-greasemonkey-tweaks/ So it turns out, now that Alice got the awesome nochrome tinderboxes up and running, that the Mac, on raw HTML layout, is about as fast as Windows.  However, on win32 and linux, when you add in the perf hit of drawing the full browser UI (the nochrome boxes just ... http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/02/15/are-you-kidding-me/ I just finished Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for the PS3.  Overall, a very well done game; felt a lot like the Tomb Raider series, but with more shooting and fewer puzzles.  I tend to prefer the opposite mix, but with the difficulty set to Easy, the shooting bits weren't annoying.  The ... http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/02/07/uncharted-drakes-fortune/