Re:Apple’s declining software quality
by dkonofalski on Thursday February 04, 2016 @07:38PM
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Wasn't that a Windows issue, though? I feel like font-rendering on Windows, in general, is far inferior to font-rendering and aliasing on the Mac. Especially with the new HiDPI displays popping up, Apple's stuff looks far better to me than any display I've ever seen on Windows.
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Re:Apple’s declining software quality
by PhantomGremlin on Friday February 05, 2016 @02:01AM
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font-rendering on Windows, in general, is far inferior to font-rendering and aliasing on the Mac
That's because Windows has to deal with so many more differences in hardware. E.g. look at these pixel-level variations in LCD screens. http://www.digitalversus.com/tv-television/screen-technology... I don't understand how it would be possible to support subpixel rendering on some of those. IIRC when I last used Windows (XP?) it let you choose from 8 different schemes. But that still wouldn't nearly be enough!
OS X and IOS can be tweaked to support a much smaller subset of that mess.
Re:Apple’s declining software quality
by theinternetman on Friday February 05, 2016 @01:18PM
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They actually went back on that decision because Windows users complained so much that the text was antialiased properly.