Bas Schouten

Hrm, Azure, what's that again? You can find out all about Azure other blog posts, there's an introduction from Joe Drew and there's several more in detailed posts discussing the Direct2D Azure backend and the performance implications to be found on m… more »

We've been working hard over the last few months to get Azure(canvas use only at this time) ready for shipping. As Firefox 7 has been in the aurora stage for a while now, it's safe now to say that there's a very good chance that Azure will be shipping w… more »

What's Azure? Azure is a new graphics component that we've been developing for use with Mozilla. Considering Joe Drew has already done an excellent blog post on the subject I won't be going into it in much detail. You can find his blog post here, if… more »

With Firefox 4 getting closer and closer to release, we've introduced a new feature in the Beta: We've enabled hardware acceleration through Direct2D by default for our users using Windows Vista or Windows 7 and having DirectX 10 Compatible hardware. As… more »

So, at Mozilla we've been looking into more ways to improve our performance in the area of complex graphics. One area where Direct2D is currently not giving us the kind of improvements we'd like, is in the case of drawing complex paths. The problem is t… more »