Sciter 3

Sciter 3 is officially out.

See its log file.

• On Windows Vista/7 it uses Direct2D backend
• On Windows XP it uses GDI+ backend

Known issue on Windows XP: rendering of linear and radial gradients is different from Direct2D backend as GDI+ has no notion of “open gradients”. I’ll fix it a bit later.

You shall expect that GDI+ rendering is not that effective as rendering by Direct2D so avoid animations affecting large areas. These two media rules allow to target different backends used:

 
  @media graphics-layer == 1 {
    /* GDI+ rules here.
       Less animation, etc. */
  }
  @media graphics-layer == 2 {
    /* Direct2D in WARP mode (software rendering but fast enough)        
     */
  }
  @media graphics-layer >= 3 {
    /* Direct2D in hardware mode, max performance. */
  }

But most of the time it is enough to have just two sections:

 
  @media graphics-layer == 1 {
    /* GDI+ rules here.
       Less animation, etc. */
  }
  @media graphics-layer > 1 {
    /* Direct2D, high performance. */
  }

In script you can check gfx backend used by reading view.backend (:integer) property.