> On Sep 14, 2015, at 9:02 AM, Jon Rimmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 14/09/2015 15:58, Simon Fraser wrote: >> >> Just to clarify, this is an OSX-wide problem, and not specific to WebKit. >> WebKit is dependent on underlying libraries for text rendering, graphics >> and compositing, and this bug is a consequence of rendering text into >> transparent textures, when the destination pixel colors are unknown. >> >> Considerable engineering effort was spent earlier this year in trying to come >> up with a solution to this problem. Some of this happened in WebKit[1], but >> unfortunately we were not able to come up with a solution that worked well >> in all cases. It’s still a high priority item for us, but we are very >> dependent on >> other frameworks. >> >> I did make an improvement which should make animations less likely to trigger >> changes in text rendering[2]. Does your content still show lots of text >> flickers >> in El Capitan or a recent WebKit nightly? > > Thanks Simon. It's reassuring to know this is still a priority, at least. I > don't have access to a machine with El Capitan, but in a recent WebKit > nightly, the problem seems to be somewhat ameliorated vs Safari 8, but I'm > still seeing quite a lot of flickering fonts, including in areas that aren't > animating, and the page occasionally getting "stuck" in the wrong > antialiasing mode:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVoE9fLukQk > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVoE9fLukQk>
Can you give me the URL of your test page? Simon
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