Speculation about Google Chrome, Skia and OpenVG

[muratmat]

It's interesting to see Google Chrome using Skia graphic library instead of OpenVG. If i remember correctly the OpenVG specifications editor is Daniel Rice that works in Google.

In addition, I was wondering if Skia is better than other public available vector graphics libraries / OpenVG software implementations. From what i've seen, Skia contains a lot of pretty naive algorithms, in all those fields that really matter: curve flattening, polygon rasterization, OpenGL polygon drawing using stencil buffer, ...

Strange move for the big G.

 

[lagunar]

The specification editor is already changed Robert Simpson (AMD) on April.
But I don't think this indicates any direction of Google.

 

[Npl]

could be that they used Webkit, which in turn uses Skia? (Im just speculating, no Idea if Webkit uses Skia and I dont think I care)

Wanted to take a peek at Chrome-sources, but they are 400MB compressed.. I have no damn idea how this minimalistic browser could use that amount of sourcecode.