WebKit: Introducing the layer based SVG engine

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  • gecko-dev

    Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html

  • I'd actually be very surprised if Firefox uses librsvg, considering it doesn't support much of the interactivity and animations that Firefox supports in SVGs.

    Looking roughly at the source code, it seems it has its own SVG engine [0].

    [0] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/layout/svg

  • Skia

    Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.

  • Chrome uses Skia which AFAIK is GPU accelerated. Not sure about the SVG part though.

    https://skia.org/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skia_Graphics_Engine

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  • pathfinder

    A fast, practical GPU rasterizer for fonts and vector graphics

  • Have you checked out the Pathfinder library?

    https://github.com/servo/pathfinder

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