Re: Quickdraw future

Brion Vibber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.macosx
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kenneth Feldt wrote:
> 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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