On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lkcl@lkcl.net">lkcl@lkcl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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once done, you'd be able to pretty much drop the exact same olpc<br>
browser onto KHTML, webkit or xul. and, other than the c++<br>
rtti-related bugs in KHTML, you'd get exactly the same functionality.</blockquote><div><br>Cool. Things are getting better indeed. <br><br>Two things to consider when looking at this...<br><br> - Startup, memory use and general responsiveness on XO hardware and general netbook hw. The current Browse.xo compares _very_ favourably with Firefox and Opera on XO-1 hardware.<br>
</div><br> - Behaviour in non-standard-dpi screens the require scaling. The XO screens have 200dpi physical pixels, with a 'perceived dpi' of ~133px. Currently gecko suffers a lot due to how images end up being scaled -- see the discussion in <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HTML_canvas_performance">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HTML_canvas_performance</a> -- and this is bound to affect other hardware as well.<br>
<br></div>cheers,<br clear="all"><br><br><br>m<br>-- <br> <a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a><br> <a href="mailto:martin@laptop.org">martin@laptop.org</a> -- School Server Architect<br>
- ask interesting questions<br> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first<br> - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff</a><br>