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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by alkonaut on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:13PM (#16147112)
If I understod correctly (which isn’t certain) Skia is also the rendering backend for chromium. Chromium is used as the rendering bits for electron. Electron is how you make these apps on “web engines”. So all those editors based on web engines likely render through Skia...
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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by tantalor on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:55PM (#16147341)
Skia is one part of Chromium; you also have Blink (browser engine) and V8 (js engine).
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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by mintplant on Sunday January 14, 2018 @08:21PM (#16147743)
Skia is also used by Firefox on some platforms (I think Linux/X11 and Android?) as its graphics backend.
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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by shmerl on Sunday January 14, 2018 @09:49PM (#16148135)
But not with Webrender that's coming in Firefox 59 I suppose?
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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by chrismorgan on Sunday January 14, 2018 @10:01PM (#16148194)
WebRender is not even enabled by default in Nightly yet. It’ll still be a while before it’s ready for production—definitely not Firefox 59. I don’t know of any schedule, but I haven’t been following it much either.

But yes, the Quantum Render project is all about making WebRender Firefox’s primary graphics backend.

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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by shmerl on Sunday January 14, 2018 @10:18PM (#16148253)
Somehow I remember it was supposed to be Firefox 59, not sure where I saw it now. Of course it can slip if it's not ready.
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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by NiLSPACE on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:35AM (#16148932)
I believe the target was Firefox 59, but they didn't make it.
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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by cheez on Sunday January 14, 2018 @09:14PM (#16147966)
I believe Skia was originally used in Android as well.
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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by on_and_off on Monday January 15, 2018 @12:12AM (#16148643)
Isn't it still the case ?
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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by oautholaf on Sunday January 14, 2018 @10:16PM (#16148246)
You believe correctly.
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