The latest alpha releases of Firefox 3 use a library called “Cairo” for much of the graphics work (note: I don’t understand exactly what that means, but it doesn’t matter).
Thanks to this new graphics infrastructure, boxes with corners rounded by the pre-CSS 3 property border-radius are rendered with beautiful anti-aliasing (currently accessible as the non-standard -moz-border-radius and soon -webkit-border-radius). Stated more simply, rounded boxes are prettier.
Here’s a quick comparison of a box with CSS rounded-corners rendered in Firefox 3.0 Alpha 1 versus Firefox 2.0:
The difference is subtle, especially with lighter colours like these, but this example represents a significant improvement in the abilities and quality of rendering in Firefox.
Also note that Firefox 3 probably won’t be released until the second half of 2007 (that’s not based on anything official - just a guess).
Comments
Socrates - December 13, 2006 10:55 PM
I've been wondering this and maybe I'll get a good answer here.
Why shouldn't I use Gran Paradiso Alpha 1?
It says there's not really new features, so does that mean there's not really new bugs? Sounds like the only difference is the new GRE ... are there still bugs in the new GRE that could harm my browsing experience?
thanks
SLA - December 14, 2006 5:23 AM
Garn Paradiso Alpha 1 is buggy. For example, it crashes, when you press [Close] button in "Print Preview" window.
It is ALPHA release (not for users, but for developers only). So, better use Firefox 2.0 for now. :)
Alex - January 18, 2007 1:47 PM
Cool we now have anti-aliasing in FF.
This can lead to some bigger cool improvements in the future.
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anthony - June 25, 2009 7:58 AM
Firefox has supported an experimental CSS technique for rounding border corners (-moz-border-radius). The rendering engine in Firefox 2 does a barely acceptable job with this, though the rounded corners don’t appear to be uniformly sized, nor are they anti-aliased. Cairo, which drives the rendering engine in Firefox 3, does a much better job at handling the rounded corners, and the results are quite nice.
As such, I’m offering some ‘eye-candy’ to those users who visit this site with either Minefield or a Firefox 3 beta build. Those users will now note that code blocks (pre elements), as well as comment blocks, have nicely rounded edges. The end result looks great, and I hope you agree.
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