Re: A property for font antialiasing control on Mac OS X

Why a vendor prefix?
I think there are designers that care about this on all browser platforms.

As an aside, this request seemed to originate from a user request to turn
sub-pixel aliasing off for icon fonts.
Couldn't you detect that a glyph is an icon and then turn off subpixel AA?
I was under the impression that there were different categories of glyphs...

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:14 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 2013-07-17 14:57 -0700, L. David Baron wrote:
> > I would prefer this to be done without a vendor prefix, since the
> > property will be implemented by multiple vendors.  I don't want each
> > vendor implementing it to have to use its own vendor prefix (adding
> > to the burden for authors, and increasing the risk of more
> > browser-specific content), nor do I want to introduce the precedent
> > of one browser implementing another browser's prefixes (which
> > increases the chance of baking those prefixes into the Web platform
> > permanently, which is even uglier).
>
> Well, given the substantial negative feedback on the list about this
> proposal, plus the lack of any positive feedback from other
> implementors, I'm going to make the call that we're going to do this
> with a vendor prefix, even though I really dislike adding new
> platform features with vendor prefixes.
>
> (We're not the first vendor adding this particular feature with a
> vendor prefix, though.)
>
> -David
>
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