WebRender2 Lands In The Servo Browser Engine
WebRender, the GPU-accelerated back-end for Mozilla's Servo browser layout engine, has seen a large number of improvements with WebRender2.
As of yesterday, the WebRender2 (Wr2) back-end has been merged to Servo. Over the original GPU accelerated WebRender code, the new version supports tiling, dashed borders / dashes / dotted boxes, and a variety of other changes.
Unfortunately I've been able to find much more information on the WebRender2 changes, but given the size of this code merge, there's a lot of work/improvements bundled in this update. Those wanting to try out Servo's GPU acceleration support can take advantage of the nightly builds with the browser.html interface.
As of yesterday, the WebRender2 (Wr2) back-end has been merged to Servo. Over the original GPU accelerated WebRender code, the new version supports tiling, dashed borders / dashes / dotted boxes, and a variety of other changes.
Unfortunately I've been able to find much more information on the WebRender2 changes, but given the size of this code merge, there's a lot of work/improvements bundled in this update. Those wanting to try out Servo's GPU acceleration support can take advantage of the nightly builds with the browser.html interface.
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