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Kenneth Feldt - 08 Jul 2004 14:38 GMT

Does Apple's recent announcement to deprecate
Quickdraw in favor of Quartz have any impact
on the development roadmap for any of the applications
built on Mozilla technology? I am guessing that
ultimately, there are device/OS specific code
fragments scattered throughout the technology that
may be difficult to fit into Quartz' imaging
models and/or geometry management.

Are there any thoughts out there on this topic?

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Brion Vibber - 09 Jul 2004 22:01 GMT

> Does Apple's recent announcement to deprecate
> Quickdraw in favor of Quartz have any impact
> on the development roadmap for any of the applications
> built on Mozilla technology?

QuickDraw and Quartz allow you to dip into one from the other, so a
transition can be (and is being) made gradually, such as:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245407

It won't be disappearing overnight.

> I am guessing that
> ultimately, there are device/OS specific code
> fragments scattered throughout the technology that
> may be difficult to fit into Quartz' imaging
> models and/or geometry management.

If I understand correctly, most (all?) of the platform-specific graphics
code is isolated in the gfx module.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Mac Forum / Applications / Firefox / Mozilla / July 2004

Quickdraw future