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A comment on IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality.

Re:IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality by teilo on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @02:01PM (#1555074)
It would be nice if he would link to the test page he is using, so that we could see what this looks like on non-windows platforms.
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Re:IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality by zephjc on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @02:03PM (#1555084)
I was looking for it too - I've never seen Safari render anything that badly, and I'm not convinced until I see it in person
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Re:IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality by brandon on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @02:22PM (#1555154)
This article is actually espousing the fillText (Canvas) rendering quality and not standard HTML text rendering.

Here's a screenshot of the source PDF viewed in Preview.app on OSX with "Actual Size" zoom: http://cl.ly/1nr0

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Re:IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality by bad_user on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @02:15PM (#1555124)
From the TFA ... All of the text is rendered with the canvas .fillText.

Of course you haven't seen anything that badly since there aren't many HTML5 apps around that render text on canvas. Duh!

Here, you can create your own test page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_text_using_a_canvas

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