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== Azure ==

The '''Mozilla Azure''' project is a stateless low-level graphics abstraction API used in [[Firefox]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/Moz2D|title=Platform/GFX/Moz2D - MozillaWiki}}</ref> The project has several objectives including more accurate Direct2D compatibility, optimized state interoperability, and improved control over performance characteristics and bugs. Azure will provide 2D hardware acceleration on top of 3D graphics backends. Firefox began using Azure instead of [[Cairo (graphics)|Cairo]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-Now-Uses-the-Azure-Graphics-API-for-Canvas-on-All-Platforms-290671.shtml|title=Firefox Now Uses the Azure Graphics API for Canvas on All Platforms|last=Parfeni|first=Lucian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTcxNQ|title=Azure Replacing Cairo In Mozilla Firefox - Phoronix}}</ref> It is written in [[C++]] and used by [[Servo (software)|Servo]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lwn.net/Articles/647969/|title=Parallel page rendering with Mozilla Servo|last1=Willis|first1=Nathan|date=17 June 2015|publisher=[[LWN.net]]|access-date=27 June 2015}}</ref> The Azure name is an ode to the early Netscape founder [[James H. Clark]] and his earlier work at [[Silicon Graphics]] where workstations were often named after colors.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.mozilla.org/joe/2011/04/26/introducing-the-azure-project/|title=Introducing the Azure project - JOEDREW!|access-date=2019-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908220007/https://blog.mozilla.org/joe/2011/04/26/introducing-the-azure-project/|archive-date=2016-09-08|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==

* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Gecko Gecko - MDN Web Docs]

* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Home_Page Gecko development wiki (wiki.mozilla.org)]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051126174310/http://cbeard.typepad.com/mozilla/2005/11/mozilla_product.html Mozilla Product Strategy Proposal (DRAFT)]

* [http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support Web Browser Standards Support]