[cairo] firefox/mozilla cairo support

[Owen Taylor]

Nathan Hurst wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Tim Rowley wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> A function to return a shape representing the selection would be nice in 
> cairo.  Probably also need a path for the caret.  It's the sort of thing 
> that everyone gets wrong when they try to do it themselves (like 
> reversing linked lists :).

Makes a lot of sense for Pango/Cairo, where it is distinctly
challenging to write.

I don't the toy API is complete enough to make implementing editing
with it interesting... if you did write an editor, it would be very
much at the level of "selection is a single rectangle".

Regards,
						Owen