Hi, As described in this bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23364 , Webkit's font rendering has been broken for over six years.
What is going on with this issue? Despite assurances from Dean Jackson that it had not been forgotten, there has been no updates from Webkit engineers since 2010. You guys have been making a welcome effort recently around better project communication. I should hardly need to explain what a terrible impression it gives to promise users that an issue has not been forgotten, then seemingly forget about it for half a decade! If there has been a decision to leave this broken, should it at least not be communicated and explained to users? As it is, we have a web application that makes heavy use of transforms, transitions and animations, and it looks like garbage in Safari, and only Safari, due to the constant flickering of rendering. I am aware we can set -webkit-font-smoothing to force LCD antialiasing everywhere, but that would mean losing subpixel antialiasing in non-broken browsers that honour this property, and we have too many Chrome users who would balk at such a sudden degradation in rendering from what they're used to. I don't want leave the app looking like crap in Safari, but right now it feels like I have no choice but to do so. It would be nice to know whether there's any hope that Webkit's font rendering will eventually be fixed? Thanks, Jon _______________________________________________ webkit-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-help
