Martin Robinson

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CSS Painting Order
How does a browser determine what order to paint content in? A first
guess might be that browsers will paint content in the order that it is
specified
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Small Things
Even between two highly-developed western countries, there are a lot of
cultural differences. After moving, I experienced the sort of culture shock
t
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Edge-distance anti-aliasing
(You might want to go straight to the demo)
Some months ago, I noticed that the Chromium
compositor, the code
which powers Chromium’s accelerated com
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Accelerated compositing update
I believe it’s past time to break the silence here, so what follows is a short update on the progress we’ve made at Igalia toward 3D CSS transforms a
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WebKitGTK+ hackfest wrapup: accelerated compositing
I just returned from this year’s WebKitGTK+ hackfest. Not only was it the most productive hackfest to date, the diversity of the people involved was
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Building a bike
For some years now, I’ve been meaning to build a bicycle. Because I balked at the idea of owning more than one, I never did. Recently my unrestrained
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Faster Shadows
One area we paid particular attention last year at Igalia was the performance of shadow rendering in web content. While web shadows are not yet ubiqu
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Looking back at the WebKit GTK hackfest
In December, I attended the WebKit GTK hackfest which has been summed up nicely in many other places. Some of the things I worked on (apart from gett
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