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Re::syntax Off by joshuacc on Monday November 05, 2012 @09:16AM (#4743495)
Chrome renders fonts differently than other browsers in Windows 7. Possibly for speed reasons? Both the latest FF and IE9 look decent.
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Re::syntax Off by pcwalton on Monday November 05, 2012 @11:38AM (#4744316)
It's more historical at this point. Chrome doesn't use DirectWrite because it uses Skia on Windows. At the time, the choice was between GDI+ and Skia, and Skia was much faster. But DirectWrite on Vista and 7 is extremely fast (it's GPU-accelerated, unlike the Skia backend Chrome uses).
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