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Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet
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On 03/27/12 09:32, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Da Rock wrote:
>> To explain the major hurdle in porting to a tablet, you'd need to probably find an alternative windowing solution then Xorg (low memory, especially in vivaldi)- I'm not 100% sure what iOS and Android use.
> iOS uses a descendant of the Display PostScript WindowServer from NEXTSTEP, although the locals have switched over to Core Graphics with Quartz as the 2D compositing engine [1], along with OpenGL ES for 3D.
Interesting... Android would be using something else obviously FOSS.