693727 - Remove (non invalidating) Core Animation Drawing model

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

We still allow non-invalidating CoreAnimation but the performance implication are terrible if it even runs correctly. We should remove the support for non-invalidating CoreAnimation since we already provide a InvalidatingCoreAnimation (ICA):
https://wiki.mozilla.org/NPAPI:InvalidatingCoreAnimation

Open questions:
- Will plug-ins correctly fall back to Core Graphics or ICA? Special care must be taken for 32-bit out-of-process plugins where the default drawing model is QuickDraw if nothing is selected (not supported).

Comment 1

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

Attachment: Remove CA

Here's a patch that simply removes support for NPAPI for testing. We can remove dead code if we're satisfied with this patch.

Comment 2

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

Started a try-build to test with CoreAnimation:
https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&pusher=[e-mail]

Comment 3

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

Better url*:
https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=edcf2ab6c1c4

Comment 4

[Mozilla RelEng Bot]

Try run for edcf2ab6c1c4 is complete.
Detailed breakdown of the results available here:
    https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=edcf2ab6c1c4
Results (out of 1 total builds):
    success: 1
Builds available at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/try-builds/[e-mail]-edcf2ab6c1c4

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Resolving old bugs which are likely not relevant any more, since NPAPI plugins are deprecated.