Hi everyone

My name is Mack Stevenson and I am developing a specialized networking app 
for our company's intranet which will basically allow remote 
visualization/modification of mechanical engineering projects, besides some 
sort of basic "technical chalk-board" (or "poor-man's CAD") functionality to 
allow easier communication between team members.

(Before you start asking yourselves what this might have to do with gecko 
:-) Last week management asked me to add support for viewing at least HTML 
4/CSS, and after some thinking I decided to give gecko a try. So here I am. 
:-)

After browsing the docs at http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/doc/, I still 
have some pretty general (and lame) questions, since what I read seemed a 
highly detailed description of the internals of gecko, not really what I am 
looking for at this time:

- We are working on Linux 2.2, and the output device is the VESA 
framebuffer;

- Our entire project is coded in C, not C++; in how far will this make my 
life harder?

- How should I proceed? :-) How does gecko _work_? Does it provide me a C 
API I can simply invoke once I have provided gecko pointers to working text 
and pixel drawing routines? Or does it work in a completely different way?

I am a fairly competent C programmer (at least I think I am), but I really 
have very little experience outside my field (computer assisted 
engineering), and have never really reused code other than by simply making 
use of pre-existing libraries. I would really appreciate your help.

Thank you,

Mack

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