On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 11:28, Michel Fodje wrote: > Is anti-aliased text supposed to work in Galeon/Mozilla? My experience > with all the Betas so far is that it works occasionally. And when it > doesn't, I see strange effects like overlapping text. Usually, > reloading the page either brings back aa-text or fixes the overlap > without bringing back aa-text, or has no effect at all. > > Has anyone observed this?
IIRC, the Mozilla packager changed the way it handles fonts when we switched to 1.1 beta. (Changelog for that release includes "Patch44 & 45 (Giuseppe): enable freetype2 backend by default"). This definitely changed the font rendering here, however it doesn't really look quite right, especially on my laptop. It certainly doesn't display text as well as applications which use Xft (like GTK2 stuff - X-Chat for example). I'm not seeing problems like the above quoted, though - I just don't like the current rendering particularly, it's not as good as Xft. I believe it's possible to patch Moz to use Xft, but I also believe that at the moment doing that requires the use of CVS Xft :(. I have a feeling the badness of the rendering on the laptop is because it doesn't use subpixel hinting; Xft can do this, and it makes anti-aliased fonts look far, FAR better on LCD screens, it's a pity that seemingly Moz doesn't use it :(. If i'm reading the changelog wrong and Moz actually is using Xft, well, it's not doing it very well :). -- adamw
