Using/running webrender outside servo

[matiasinsaurralde]

Hi, is it possible to use webrender outside servo?

[glennw]

I haven't tried for a while, but it should be possible. It doesn't depend on any of the servo crates (by design), although the interface is fairly heavily tied to how Servo generates display lists. Naturally, there's no guarantees on API stability etc :)

[kevinmehall]

I've been experimenting with this and got something working:
https://github.com/kevinmehall/webrender-experiments

I think I'm setting the clipping parameters wrong, and probably integrating with the glutin event loop suboptimally (it seems to lag about a frame behind the mouse). If you have any tips there or other suggestions, let me know.

Would you be interested in a PR adding something like this to the repo as a cargo example?

[glennw]

@kevinmehall Yes, I'd merge a PR for that - nice work!

[matiasinsaurralde]

@kevinmehall It looks so great, thanks

[glennw]

This repo exists as a sample of using WR outside of Servo - https://github.com/glennw/wr-sample.