On 5/9/07, Victor Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Firefox Cairo I just heard about recently, and haven't been able to find a lot. I was actually hoping that somebody on the email list could speak on this if they have info.
It's really just Cairo [1]. The term "Firefox Cairo" likely comes from the more recent testing Firefox has done with switching up 2D rendering backends from whatever it was before to using Cairo. Cairo has been around for much longer than WPF or family, and is in use in a number of applications already (many GTK+ controls are drawn with Cairo now), but it's not really the same at all. Cairo provides a very nice 2D graphics rendering library, but WPF is really more about animation (which Cairo does not do) and crosses into the 3D realm. It just happens to provide this with a nice vector-based API much like Cairo. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(graphics) The official site seems to be down at the moment unfortunately. Regards, Bryan Petty _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
