Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > * Does it come standard with X11? I read some docs on the net (dated > 2000) that Cairo was an idea for a new graphics subsystem in X Windows > to take advantage of newer video cards emerging in the market. Did > that idea materialize? Is Cairo now considered standard with X11 like > Xft? > >
No. Cairo is one component of the gtk stack although it can be used independently of gtk. The only dependency is libpng AFAIK. > * How is it's support on Windows or Mac OS X? > Windows is marked as supported platform (in fact, most of my dev with cairo is done in windows). Starting with 1.6 Mac OSX/Quartz is marked as supported. As a side note, Firefox 3 uses cairo to render all stuff in all platforms (this is one of the reasons to the speedup in page loading). Luiz _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
