SVG... librsvg?
Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:21:01 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.java.xwt.core |
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| Organization | XWT Foundation |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Since we have mips2java, how plausible is it to use librsvg to give us decent SVG support in the short term? It's lightening fast at rendering SVG images (Gnome displays SVG images more quickly than PNGs) and being actively worked upon (which is more than can be said for our SVG support). It's also not too big, weighing in at 270k tarball (although I have no idea how this will be reflected as a binary). Even if we push for Java-written SVG support, this could be months away whereas librsvg is ready now. This is one of the reasons I believe Ibex should have a plug-in setup, so these things can be downloaded and updated as required, rather than one large monolithic download and update. I remember bringing both these issues up before and being told 'no' before but cannot remember a coherent reason not to push both. -- - Charlie Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> Online @ http://www.charlietech.com