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The AsyncPanZoomController (APZC) is a platform component that allows panning and zooming to be performed asynchronously (on the compositor thread rather than the main thead). | The AsyncPanZoomController (APZC) is a platform component that allows panning and zooming to be performed asynchronously (on the compositor thread rather than the main thead). | ||
For zooming, this means that the APZC reacts to a pinch gesture immediately and instructs the compositor to scale the already-rendered layers at whatever resolution they have been rendered (so e.g. text becomes more blurry as you zoom in), and meanwhile sends a request to Gecko to re-render the content at a new resolution (with sharp text and all). | |||
For panning, this means that the APZC asks Gecko to render a portion of a scrollable layer, called the "display port", that's larger than the visible portion. It then reacts to a pan gesture immediately, asking the compositor to render a different portion of the displayport (or, if the displayport is not large enough to cover the new visible region, then nothing in the portions it doesn't cover), and meanwhile sends a request to Gecko to render a new displayport. (The displayport can also be used when zooming out causes more content of a scrollable layer to be shown than before.) | |||
== Main APZC projects on the horizon == | == Main APZC projects on the horizon == | ||