A grumpy user's browser review

A grumpy user's browser review

Posted Feb 11, 2004 21:55 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
In reply to: A grumpy user's browser review by TheOneKEA
Parent article: A grumpy user's browser review

No, I meant that the non-Xft build uses the X core font system, the one which requires the long, complicated font specs (such as -bitstream-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1)

The Microsoft set of TrueType fonts has nothing to do with the Firefox font rendering problem--its glyphs will be ugly too if the browser doesn't use the Xft libraries. The difference is that with the X core fonts, the browser asks the X server (or an X font server) directly for the font glyphs, which are returned as bitmaps. The new Xft method uses a completely different rendering engine which uses the font outlines intelligently and enables antialiasing and other neat features.

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