Re: Cocoa developer tools downgrade from openstep?
Re: Cocoa developer tools downgrade from openstep?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa developer tools downgrade from openstep?
- From: Mark Eaton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:50:02 -0700
On Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 07:20 PM, Erik M. Buck wrote:
4) I Like Quartz a lot, but I was puzzled at WWDC by the Apple OpenGL
guys
wondering publicly why Apple did not just use OpenGL for 2D graphics. I
suppose the lack of device independence and good font support did not
occur
to them.
You most assuredly misunderstood them. I don't think they were
suggesting that Quartz be ditched in favor of ogl, but rather that
Quartz use ogl for hardware accelerated rendering. In fact I know this
idea has been discussed inside Apple.
-mark