Alex Hudson home@alexhudson.com
As an example of the kind of development that needs 3D hardware acceleration: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6498
Why are they interested in Cairo rather than any 2d-friendly vector library? Can someone translate that page for non-graphics-fans?
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version of Mozilla that requires GL, and various toolkits, font rendering systems, etc. There is a GL X server in heavy development, and obviously most games but also many multimedia programs use GL for video. You just can't run a fully GL desktop off a software runtime, and it looks like everyone is going GL...
Is everyone going GL because they are ignorant or just willing to ignore what looks like a new Java Trap problem to get the benefits?
What is the scale of this problem? A few cards have been mentioned, but the messages make it sound like they're a small minority of 3d hardware on sale today. Are there similar sites to r300.sf.net for other manufacturers, or any overview site?
Thanks,