- From: Helder Magalhães <helder.magalhaes@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:47:19 +0000
- To: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
Hi everyone, > http://codedread.com/browser-tests/subpixel.svg > Just want to confirm that there should be two tiny words on this page. > 1) Firefox 3.6 and IE9 display both words the same sizes as expected It should be noticed that, in Firefox 4, there are noticeable changes in font rendering, at least in Windows, due to the introduction of Direct2D [1] (GPU accelerated widget and font rendering - via DirectWrite). (Using a beta or a nightly build, one can check/toggle this feature in "Options" --> "Advanced" --> General --> "Use hardware acceleration when available", current status can be confirmed by typing "about:support" in the address bar.) I've seen a couple font rendering bugs being "solved" by this new approach (for example, bug 543176 [2]), so one should be aware of these changes in the mean time (and, even afterward, when no hardware support is available/configured enabled). :-) On the other hand, I've quickly confirmed that, in *this* particular case, rendering seems accurate in both versions (3.6.x and a nightly 4.0). ;-) > Thanks, > Jeff Schiller Cheers, Helder [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=direct2d [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543176
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