On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:39 PM, <al...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> In general, if I understand correctly, it's hard to use native subpixel AA >> in layers that use hardware accelerated compositing. So in some cases we >> might need to choose between speed and subpixel rendering. (I'm not at all >> an expert in this area, though.) > > This is non accelerated rendering using old, stable, xp era rendering apis. > There's no question that proper cleartype rendering can be achieved. This > all used to work even with the post 4.0 rendering susbsytem, these are > relatively recent regressions (15, 18, 27). > > It's unreasonable that after a decade of adequate rendering on xp it should > start falling apart like this.
I agree with the others that correct ClearType rendering is more important than whatever performance gain we'd get by having poor ClearType rendering. ClearType is one of the biggest reasons keeping me using Windows instead of switching to other platforms; I almost feel like I couldn't work without it. Further, because we generally have quite small text in our browser chrome, ClearType rendering in Chrome is especially important to get right, at least in the address bar. My understanding is that Windows XP is our top platform or second-to-top platform behind Windows 7. We have more Windows XP users than we have on Mac, Linux, B2G, and Android combined, right? Because most people at Mozilla don't run Windows, and especially because almost nobody at Mozilla runs Windows XP (and nobody should, inside or outside of Mozilla), it may be a little too easy for us to marginalize concerns like this, since we have no dogfooding and because non-Windows users probably have a hard time grasping the importance of ClearType for many end-users. Still, I think this issue is one that is more appropriately discussed on dev-firefox, not dev-platform. The dev-firefox mailing list is here: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/ Note that the dev-firefox mailing list is moderated and I recommend that you use a more positive tone when posting to that mailing list. If you have trouble getting your messages through moderation, let me know and I will help. Cheers, Brian -- Mozilla Networking/Crypto/Security (Necko/NSS/PSM) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
