From: lucsky@... (Luc Heinrich)
Date: 2003-02-08T04:07:48+09:00
Subject: Re: locana, SVG, cross-platform GUI meanderings...

Robert Hahn <rhahn@tenletters.com> wrote:

> OS X *does* draw everything in 3D using OpenGL. All 3D-looking widgets
> are, in fact, 3D widgets, I believe.

Errr, not at all. 

The user interface in OSX is drawn using Quartz*2D*. OpenGL is only used
by the QuartzCompositor, which combines windows content from all
applications and enable funky effects (drop-shadows, scaling,
translucency, etc...).

So the widgets you see are *not* 3D. They are just a bunch of 2D pixels
mixed together through an OpenGL pipeline to speed up the whole damn
thing a little bit.

-- 
Luc Heinrich - lucsky@mac.com