Comments on: GDI Text on Windows http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/ All about WebKit development Fri, 16 May 2008 16:55:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Brad http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24242 Brad Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:06:31 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24242 I hope this never becomes the default. I hate that when I specify something to be bold on the page that it never really looks all that much bolder in other Windows browsers, and that the different fonts lose their distinctive design qualities. Just having it as an option in the preferences to placate the crybabies is good enough. Are you working to eventually support the advanced text features in GDI? Or have CoreGraphics support a GDI option? I hope this never becomes the default. I hate that when I specify something to be bold on the page that it never really looks all that much bolder in other Windows browsers, and that the different fonts lose their distinctive design qualities. Just having it as an option in the preferences to placate the crybabies is good enough.

Are you working to eventually support the advanced text features in GDI? Or have CoreGraphics support a GDI option?

]]> By: Scott Johnson http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24230 Scott Johnson Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:10:42 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24230 @<a href="#comment-24192" rel="nofollow">ajmas</a>: I guess I was confused by the statement later on: <blockquote>"Note that while you can turn on GDI text rendering in the WebKit that ships with Safari 3.1"</blockquote> @ajmas: I guess I was confused by the statement later on:

“Note that while you can turn on GDI text rendering in the WebKit that ships with Safari 3.1″

]]> By: codinghorror http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24200 codinghorror Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:07:43 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24200 This is awesome news! Thanks WebKit team-- you ROCK! This is awesome news! Thanks WebKit team– you ROCK!

]]> By: ajmas http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24192 ajmas Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:21:16 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24192 Scott: The change is not available in the 3.1, it is only available in the latest nightly. Read the first paragraph in the blog entry. Scott: The change is not available in the 3.1, it is only available in the latest nightly. Read the first paragraph in the blog entry.

]]> By: Unr3a1 http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24186 Unr3a1 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:50:33 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24186 I am not seeing an option for FontSmoothing. Where is it in the file? I am not seeing an option for FontSmoothing. Where is it in the file?

]]> By: RichB http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24177 RichB Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:35:04 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24177 Using met's tip of also setting FontSmoothing to 4, and tadunne's tip of visiting a site other than apple.com works. Yea! Using met’s tip of also setting FontSmoothing to 4, and tadunne’s tip of visiting a site other than apple.com works. Yea!

]]> By: RichB http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24176 RichB Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:29:49 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24176 With last night's WebKit, I didn't have a WebKitPreferences.plist file. So instead, I modified the com.apple.Safari.plist file - but WebKit kept reverting it back to 3 whenever I entered 4. So I copied Safari's prefs to WebKitPreferences.plist and tried again with 4. This time, WebKit didn't try to modify the setting, but the font rendering was still the same old heavily emboldened type that Safari uses. WinXP. With last night’s WebKit, I didn’t have a WebKitPreferences.plist file. So instead, I modified the com.apple.Safari.plist file - but WebKit kept reverting it back to 3 whenever I entered 4.

So I copied Safari’s prefs to WebKitPreferences.plist and tried again with 4. This time, WebKit didn’t try to modify the setting, but the font rendering was still the same old heavily emboldened type that Safari uses.

WinXP.

]]> By: Scott Johnson http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24098 Scott Johnson Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:46:50 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24098 I enabled this on 3.1. After surfing to a few sites, I honestly didn't notice a difference. I enabled this on 3.1. After surfing to a few sites, I honestly didn’t notice a difference.

]]> By: Dave Hyatt http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24085 Dave Hyatt Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:03:35 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24085 What we'll probably end up doing is pretending like Lucida Grande does not exist when GDI is on, since it looks so bad with GDI rendering. What we’ll probably end up doing is pretending like Lucida Grande does not exist when GDI is on, since it looks so bad with GDI rendering.

]]> By: The_Decryptor http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24079 The_Decryptor Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:03:44 +0000 http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/#comment-24079 http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/28867 That's where it was originally added (and has comments about the issues that have been fixed in this change set) in http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/28867#file9 on line 255 (old) 261 (new) states that Lucida Grande is hard coded to use normal rendering (due to it's weights) http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/28867

That’s where it was originally added (and has comments about the issues that have been fixed in this change set)

in http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/28867#file9 on line 255 (old) 261 (new) states that Lucida Grande is hard coded to use normal rendering (due to it’s weights)

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