Vladimir Vukićević write in is blog that the team working on updating the grafix rendering engine, which should move from different layers (one for win32, one for the mac, and a third for X11, plus the ports (like BeOS)) to the Cairo graphics library is in good shape. The work is almost finished on win32, X11 has a bug in most of it's implementation making the use of Cairo for mozilla slower then what's currently available. The big question for mac me, being a camino user, was how would Cairo behave in Quartz/Aqua, and Vladimir seems to think that the preformance should be in the same range as on the win32 platform. Reading his thought make me think that they might need some help from a mac coder.
The good news is that the switch will start after Firefox 1.1 is released, meaning that the QA teams will have plenty hours to find and report bugs against the new graphics library used by the mozilla products.
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