DirectWrite support added to Chrome Canary

I will not describe the history of Chrome, and so it is all known to some extent. One of his biggest problems today (according to some people, including me) is the lack of support for DirectWrite , which appeared with the release of Windows 7 back in 2009.

Mozilla and Microsoft have been much more flexible in this Google and began to use the new API since March 2011 - Firefox 4 and IE 9 . The developers of Chromium decided to wait for the integration of Skia and only then undertake to replace GDI / Uniscribe with Windows.

Real advances began this summer, it all hung in a state of “already about to” for several months in a row, and ... the long-awaited happened. In today's build of Chrome Canary, it is possible to look at subpixel smoothed fonts, without using SVG and CSS hacks.
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You can connect DirectWrite by running Chrome Canary with these flags:
--no-sandbox --enable-direct-write

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