[cairo] firefox/mozilla cairo support

[Tim Rowley]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:37:12AM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Tim Rowley wrote:
> >Speaking as the guy who wrote the mozilla svg renderer cairo
> >backend and who does a fair bit of work on the gdi+ backend, I
> >can say that the gdi+ backend tends to be quite a bit faster and
> >is feature matched with cairo backend (and is currently better at
> >text).
> 
> Out of curiousity, better in what ways for text?

It's mainly the difference in time that's been put into the gdi+
and cairo moz svg layers - the cairo glue is a quick "good
enough" layer on the toy API, while the gdi+ glue does better
font selection, underline/strikethrough, and draws selections.

> Two things I know about:
>
>  - Text to path hasn't been implemented yet. (It's about 100
>    lines of fairly obvious code)

Actually this works fine already with the current cairo.

-tor