On Jan 16, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Justin Haygood wrote:

On 1/16/06, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:
On Jan 16, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Justin Haygood wrote:

> We have several libraries we can choose from:
>
> GDI
> GDI+

The concern with GDI+ is that it only works on XP/2003/Vista as well,
right?

GDI+ is redistributable on older platforms (98/2000/ME).

Yeah, true.

> Windows Presentation Foundation (XP/2003/Vista only)

I don't see this as an option.
> Cairo (portable) - Mozilla's choice, LGPL'ed
>

Is Cairo built on GDI or GDI+? Will it work on Win2k?

I don't know. I believe GDI. Should, Both GDI & GDI+ work on Windows 2000.

In order to do some of the SVG features, I assume GDI+ will be
necessary though...

GDI+ is what Mozilla used to use. Cairo is used for SVG if you have Firefox 1.5.

I would guess that Cairo requires gdiplus.dll.

I think GDI+ is what we should go with initially. Cairo might be interesting as a way to do SVG eventually, but for now I think we should not define SVG_SUPPORT and basically not worry about SVG. The initial goal should be the bring-up of the HTML rendering portion (SVG can come much later), and I don't think Cairo really provides much of any benefit for that (although I'd be happy to be proven wrong).

dave