Test harness and test suite assumptions wrt anti-aliasing (font smoothing, clearType)

Hello,

The test suite assumpions
http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/nightly-unstable/#uncommon

and the test harness entrance page
http://test.csswg.org/harness/ [1]

should specifically invite testers to disable anti-aliasing (font
smoothing, ClearType) in their operating system because this can and
will affect rendered layout. I believe the ideal text of such
recommendation would describe how to disable anti-aliasing in Windows,
Mac and Linux.

We already invite testers to assume black text on white background, no
minimum font size and background color printing:

"
Please make sure your client is configured to:
Default black text on a white background.
No minimum font size.
Print background colors and images.
"
So,


Linux KDE 4: K application Kickoff launcher / System Settings /
Applications Appearance / Fonts / Use font smoothing : Disabled

Windows XP: Start / Control Panel / Category Appearance and Themes /
Display / Appearance tab / Effects button / and here uncheck the
checkbox "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts"

Under IE8: Tools / Internet Options / Advanced tab / category Multimedia
/ and here uncheck the checkbox " Always use ClearType for HTML"

Often, the operating system must be restarted to make the change
effective, fully in effect.

Gérard
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Received on Saturday, 17 March 2012 02:00:22 UTC