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A grumpy user's browser reviewA grumpy user's browser reviewPosted 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 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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