Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration

Re:Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-... by StillBored on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:38PM (#22478495)

Which is yet another case of fix the problems with the existing stack rather than creating a new one.

Yah, you don't get to be a hero, and product arch, etc for making X work better. I have yet to see a convincing argument that X couldn't have been made more secure by bolting on another opt-in extension. Then once in place, like GL ES, you start deprecating all the features used by basically no-one.

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Re:Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-... by bigger_cheese on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @06:46PM (#22479875)

One of the big issues is there is a heap of legacy cruft in the existing X Stack which makes trying to fix/enhance X difficult. From what I understand the way it is written not easy to cleanly depreciate certain features like you've suggested.

So I can totally see the appeal for a clean break from having to maintain strict backwards compatibility with a stack that has its roots in the 1980's.

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Re:Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-... by DCKing on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:48PM (#22478578)

I don't understand your post, nobody mentioned security in this discussion?

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