[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 16979] Patch to conditionalize some CG/Cairo support in win32

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Wed Jan 23 11:53:45 PST 2008


http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16979





------- Comment #9 from bfulgham at gmail.com  2008-01-23 11:53 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> (I'm not sure what "native" really means here. Is Cairo a "native" Win32
> library? It doesn't seem to be any more so than CoreGraphics, for example. So
> we'll probably need a more descriptive name than "native" for whatever this
> port becomes.)

It's more 'native' in that someone could legally take the code and do something
with it.  At the moment, I can't use a CG-based WebKit to do anything but play
at home.

And for all practical purposes, a Cairo back-end is probably as close to a
'native' win32 build as we are likely to get, as replicating the Cairo
functionality in GDI/GDI+/etc. seems like a waste of time.  The only reason I
am pursuing the Cairo work is that I can't ship WebKit with my application
using the CG-based backend.


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