Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:28:50 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet Message-ID: <4F7117D2.70405@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4FAC8965-EF32-4857-BA8E-936B357DE308@mac.com> References: <4F6FACB5.5030900@dichotomia.fr> <201203260021.q2Q0LpOF084377@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20120326154223.GA11501@hemlock.hydra> <4F70F6AD.4000107@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4FAC8965-EF32-4857-BA8E-936B357DE308@mac.com>
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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.
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