Re: Text anti-aliasing on the Mac

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote:
> Some sites use -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased to permanently turn off
> subpixel antialiasing to avoid this text popping. http://apple.com is one
> such site.
>
> So there seems to be a need for such a property, although it is exposing an
> implementation detail that I hope will one day go away.

Yeah, as I said, it appears to only be an issue for non-Retina Macs.
Retina Macs don't do subpixel at all, and other platforms have much
smaller differences between grayscale and subpixel AA.  So, the issue
should disappear in a reasonable amount of time.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:19:56 UTC