Mango Juice wrote:Is there a bug for font AA not working at all in recent nightlies?
If you're using prefs to force-enable DirectWrite or Direct2D, that was unintentionally broken by 651498.
squall_leonhart wrote:please don't, character spacing looks so wrong with gdi classic.
Is that GDI classic by way of the (broken and buggy) AA tuner? Or GDI classic by way of Firefox's new setting and/or by disabling HWA? GDI's spacing has always been consistent and event; nothing wrong with it (okay, you can't count MS Office, since that use GDI rendering with natural spacing/positioning, so spacing there looks wrong).
For people who aren't following the bug...
* This is a very good read: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
* I don't think that we should use GDI across the board. Specifically, for tiny text (e.g,, 4pt), Natural looks much clearer than GDI. And for larger text, Natural looks better. GDI-style pixel-gridded rendering works best when the strokes in a font are reasonably close to a pixel in width, and I think that the smart move would be to use GDI only on that range. I think that is the course of action that the developers would find the most palatable.