The Cairo vector-based graphics library now has a BeOS port, courtesy of Christian "biesi" Biesinger.

The Cairo library is used in Gecko 1.8 - the engine behind Firefox 1.5 and Seamonkey 1.0 - for SVG and CANVAS tag support, although future plans involve it receiving heavier use for general rendering, and is also receiving increasing use within GTK+, with 2.8 having inital support for it.

The availability of this library on BeOS should aid the native porting of GTK+ in the future as well as ensuring that Mozilla products have a future on the platform, and its almost certain to see wider adoption in the future.

Currently, it must be built from CVS, and requires bang up-to-date versions of libtool, freetype, fontconfig and libpng to build,