[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 11332] SVG support for Linux port

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11332





------- Comment #8 from zimmermann at kde.org  2006-10-18 05:48 PDT -------
Heya Mike!

First of all I really like your interessest regarding a Cairo/gdk based
SVG rendering device! Though I am not sure wheter it should go in, because:
- Since some months, there is following plan floating around:

  KCanvas own RenderingDeviceContext should die, and the functionality
  of it should be merged into GrahpicsContext directly. That will eliminate
  a lot of confusion. The resources (masker, clipper, marker, patterns,
  gradients, filters) etc. of need to be merged into platform/ code as an
  follow-up patch.

We currently only have a Qt-device & Quartz rendering device in kcanvas/device
in WebKit. If the KRenderingDeviceContext kill happens, we already need to
change & test two implementations, a third one in SVN is one more to fix.

As stated above, this area is supposed to change a lot. If you want to
commit this SVG rendering device in SVN (to save bitrod), this is no problem
(for me) at all, though you are warned, that you'll probably need to fix
a lot, when this change happens.

For me, new semester started today, and it'll take some time until I have
sufficient time for SVG hacking in WebKit - though this GraphicsContext
<-> RenderingDeviceContext merge is up on my todo list). If you feel
like working on it, this would be highly appreciated :-)

Greetings,
Nikolas Zimmermann


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