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Opened Dec 10, 2018 by Florian Blasius@FloVanGH🤘Maintainer

Servo WebRender Backend Evaluation

There is a suggestion in the chat to use the WebRender of the Servo project https://doc.servo.org/webrender/ as OrbTk backend. Maybe we should evaluate it.

Advantages

  • Well maintained backend
  • Use by Servo / Firefox
  • Abstract API
  • Cross platform
  • Drawing of Shapes
  • Image Drawing
  • Scrolling
  • Touch Events (by winit)
  • Fast
  • ...

Disadvantages

  • It would be complicated to stay compatible with Redox
  • Two or three backends will be needed: OrbClient for Redox, one for WebAssembly, WebRenderer for all other platforms
  • If we provide an additional backend for WebRenderer in OrbTk it will be complicated / a lot of effort to keep the feature gap of OrbClient backend as small es possible

Counterproposal OrbClient port to gfx-hal

Check #108 (closed)

Prof of concept: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/FloVanGH/orbtk/tree/webrenderer (wip not started yet)

Edited Dec 10, 2018 by Florian Blasius
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Reference: redox-os/orbtk-mirror#128