undefined | Better HN

0 pointsrayiner6y ago0 comments

Neat, I didn't even know that existed.

> Compositions and animations created by DirectComposition are passed to a built-in component of Windows called Desktop Window Manager (DWM) for rendering to the screen. Therefore, no special rendering components or UI frameworks are required on the computer.

Wow. Everything old is new again: https://nnc3.com/mags/LM10/issue/04/Berlin.pdf.

(As an aside, Berlin has somehow almost completely disappeared from Google. I had trouble remembering the name, and I searched "display server scene graph corba" and it didn't come up in the first few pages. Finally found this slashdot announcement: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/02/11/24/189226/fresco-m1-re...)

0 comments

pcwalton6y ago

Yeah, it's neat. The long-term goal is to move Firefox to use DirectComposition as much as it can, by the way, by integrating it into WebRender. I've done some work on this with the "planeshift" library. I wouldn't be surprised if Chromium eventually does the same (as it already uses Core Animation on macOS).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsrayiner6y ago0 comments

Neat, I didn't even know that existed.

Wow. Everything old is new again: https://nnc3.com/mags/LM10/issue/04/Berlin.pdf.

0 comments

pcwalton6y ago

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse