On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 4:24 PM, wctaiwan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think we should prioritise users with font smoothing disabled. > ClearType has been available since at least Windows XP. If there are > legibility issues, we should probably fix it; but if it merely looks > ugly, the solution is for the users to enable font smoothing if they > want prettier font rendering. > I too was surprised at how many users are A) on XP with ClearType off, which is the default there or B) turn font smoothing off intentionally. I should note that by fixing this bug we won't be changing the appearance for users on most platforms, except those on Windows who have these two fonts (Arimo, Liberation Sans), so we're not degrading the quality of font rendering just to optimize for those without smoothing. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
