Re: Text anti-aliasing on the Mac

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> Rik privately asked for some images of this in effect.  Try this
> Chromium bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152304
>  The "before" pic shows grayscale anti-aliasing, the "after" pic shows
> LCD anti-aliasing, both on Mac.  It should be pretty obvious that
> switching between the two as opacity transitions from .99 to 1 would
> be undesirable.
>

We do have some techniques to mitigate this. Which technique gets used
depends on the details of the content and whether GPU compositing is being
used (which on Mac depends on which version of MacOS and which drivers are
present).

Rob
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