[cairo] Question about how Firefox 3 switching to use cairo as the graphics engine

Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 10:06:46 PST 2008


Hi,

> I think  Firefox 3 switching to use cairo as the graphics engine.
> I think it can use cairo paint text, draw line functions to display
> web page content.
Yes, right - FireFox3 uses Cairo to do most of its graphic stuff.

> But what about plugins? How will plugins being drawn to the cairo surface?
Its up to the plugin how they draw - they still can use whatever they want.

lg Clemens



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