So it seems that Mozilla.org is serious about using Cairo as its graphics library. That being the case, I figured I should probably start on a Quartz backend for Cairo. I didn’t have too much time today, but in an hour or so I was able to read some docs, compile the Cairo libraries, and build a Cocoa test app. My test app is just a window that Cairo can draw into so I can test things easily. I only got far enough to get Cairo drawing shapes and whatnot into my test app, but it was still a gratifying feeling to see Cairo actually draw something for the first time on my system. What it draws now is not done through a proper Quartz backend, but I hope to fix that.

I’m really looking forward to doing this because I have never written much in the way of graphics code. It should be an awesome learning experience. I hope Pav and Vlad don’t get annoyed with my wandering over to ask them lots of questions…

This is the beginning of the end for Quickdraw in Mozilla.org products. Thank God.