the most slowest rendering web site

[Dirk Mueller]

On Die, 16 Apr 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> Huh?? it runs perfectly nice under the exact machine with mozilla 0.9.9 - and 
> I really don't want to piss you off, Dirk...

Yes, I know. Mozilla works a bit differently - they do the alphablending in 
software and cache the result. We don't do that, because its sort of 
difficult to get right - you have to detect when to invalidate the cache. 

Anyway, its up to the X developers to fix - because there are always cases 
where you just have to do the actual alphablending and can not hide it 
behind doing ugly hacks with caching and precalculation etc. Any decent 
graphics card in today's use does such things hardware accellerated and 
about 500-1000 times faster than anything done in software, so I really 
don't see the point in adding thousands lines of clumsy code to khtml just 
to work around X server bugs that they can fix by implementing the 
functionality in your x server driver with maybe 20 lines of code. 

Once we have no other grave problems left remind me again. 


Dirk