On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:12:41PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > I don't know what kind of display you have, but on my LCD it's very > > obvious that Firefox 2 (on the right) has clear and readable fonts, and > > Firefox 3 (on the left) has dreadfully muddy ones. > > It wasn't clear which was which, and after years of seeing font bug reports > & complaints, the only thing that's ever clear is that no one agrees on
Understood, although "same as it was before" is probably a good bet? > Personally, I do think the right box looks clearer, and I wonder if cairo > isn't passing the same options to Xft that pango does, especially around > font hinting/LCD optimization/antialiasing. Any hints on where I might go investigating this? I'm guessing no-one documented this anywhere :) regards john
