On 12-11-24 02:52 PM, Jiang Jiang wrote: > Hi Behdad, > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]> wrote: >> [Excuse my cross-lists posting] >> >> >> A while back I wrote a document about the interactions of high-density >> displays and font rendering options. I just went ahead and made it public, >> so, enjoy! >> >> http://goo.gl/yf3M7 > > A very good read indeed. I've noticed that on my rMBP certain fonts > like Arial have terrible spacing in Safari while some other fonts > don't. It is quite noticeable to trained eyes even when reading your > article (presented by Google Docs in Arial). So looks like that is a > caveat from the hybrid method used by Apple.
I walked into an Apple store and checked this. I completely agree that it looks really bad. > Opera 12 on Mac seemed to have the same problem on my rMBP. > > Out of curiosity, which method does Chrome choose to handle high > resolution displays like rMBP? Is --enable-text-subpixel-positioning > still in use? To be honest, I'm not sure what the Mac version is shipping right now. I should go figure out though. > Do you aware of any way to force using sub-pixel positioning with > Apple's WebKit port? No. > Jonathan, can you please comment on the case for Firefox as well? I > noticed that the latest nightlies have turn on the high DPI support. Robert O'Callahan left this comment on the document: "You might want to mention what Firefox does --- which is "Remove Linearity Requirement". But if the underlying platform rasterizer doesn't use hinting or subpixel positioning, we respect that." -- behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
