[cairo] GIF, PNG and MNG supports

[Nguyen Vu Hung]

Hello all,

As you may already know, current version of cairo suports PNG, but not GIF
and MNG.
And according to wikipedia, GIF patent is expired as of 2003[2] and
therefore, we can freely use GIF format.
The MNG format is stated as a replacement for GIF, but as of now, major
browsers like IE6, IE7, Firefox do not support MNG ( yet ).
The bad thing with PNG is that it does not support animation - which is a
fancy feature that is used widely on the web.

So, my question is: Do you need GIF ( and/or MNG ) support for cairo?
I don't know how hard it is to implementing those features but for my needs,
they are worth to be implemented[1]

[1] http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-January/009145.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF

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Best Regards,
Nguyen Hung Vu
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