Re: Cocoa developer tools downgrade from openstep?
Re: Cocoa developer tools downgrade from openstep?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa developer tools downgrade from openstep?
- From: Andre John Mas <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:25:38 -0400
On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 01:50 PM, Mark Eaton wrote:
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.
Has Apple changed its mind on this issue? Given that most Macs running
MacOS X
these days have access to accelerator cards it would almost be stupid not
to support this, unless of course they want to avoid writing software OGL
drivers for the cards they don't want to support.
Andre
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