703159 - Switch SVG to use Moz2D

Status: NEW

(Core :: SVG, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Filing this bug to cover changing to use the Azure APIs in SVG.

Note: the old Thebes/cairo APIs were stateful, but the Azure API is basically stateless, so there isn't a trivial mapping from old API to new API.

Bas says we should keep the cairo-based code paths around for now (protected by gfxContext->IsAzure() checks), so that we can optionally disable Azure if needed and still get correct output.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

A good chunk of the Azure API that we'd be using lives in this file:
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/graphics/annotate/0592d965c922/gfx/2d/2D.h

Comment 2

[Helder "Lthere" Magalhães]

Setting this issue to depend on Azure, in order to establish a (formal) relationship between the two issues.

Comment 4

[Florian Bender]

Can we declare victory here?

Comment 5

[Nicholas Nethercote [inactive]]

(In reply to Florian Bender from comment #4)
> Can we declare victory here?

Comment 6

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

We're still using gfxContext::PushGroup and related APIs. Once Moz2D has similar API we can have a last push to get rid of the rest of the gfxContext usage. I believe Bas was going to start work on that Moz2D API around the end of this year.

Comment 7

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 15 votes.
:jwatt, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

For more information, please visit auto_nag documentation.