On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Amanda Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Brett Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This is not platform-specific on any other architecture, and it
>> doesn't need to be. The difference is that font and form control
>> rendering have to be native for us to look correct. This is not the
>> case for images or any other part of GraphicsContext.
>
> But font and form control drawing *use* GraphicsContext, which is what
> prompted turning on PLATFORM(CG) in the first place.  We can turn off
> PLATFORM(CG), which resolves the type mismatches for images--but also
> means forking FontMac, FontMacATSUI, and so on (a total of a dozen or
> so files, last time I tried it) or upstream a patch that replaces a
> lot of code like "CGContextRef cgContext = context->platformContext()"
> with platform-specific macro (a type of patch that WebKit has been
> resistant to so far, from what I've seen).

That's what I was saying may or may not be worth it, and what the
decision really comes down to.

Brett

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