On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Jet Villegas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Jeff Muizelaar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I think it would probably make sense for Servo to move printing over to > > using webrender display items. I feel like that's what Gecko would > probably > > prefer to do in the long anyways so that we can drop our existing Moz2D > > paint code. > > > > > I'm not sure how this would work. I suppose a PDF/PostScript/GDI backend > for WebRender could be constructed but that sounds like a big effort. > The Webrender display items would be painted using Moz2D. > > > > This is my preference as well. It's more valuable to Gecko for Servo to > be > > focused on moving Webrender forward as fast possible without having to > > worry about a legacy backend. > > > > While I generally agree, I'm not so optimistic that paper printing will > just fall out of this work. That use case isn't going away. > Sure. But, at least in my opinion, printing should be very low on Servo's priority list and shouldn't get in the way of the higher priority work that needs to be done. -Jeff _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
