Testing the
experimental build of the Opera with @ font-face support, I felt something was wrong - the usual fonts in it look unusual. Is this a proprietary anti-aliasing system or some particular use of ClearType? The first option is plausible for the following reasons:
- Administrator privileges are needed to install fonts into the system - the proprietary font rendering system solves this problem, and on all systems at once.
- I know about Mac, I don’t know about Linux, about Windows I can see that ClearType is terrible. Since Opera can draw fonts, why shouldn't she smooth them out herself?
- Fonts are not displayed the same on all systems.
- Not PC devices that Opera targets, as I understand it, do not have anti-aliasing at all
To test the guesses, I will disable system anti-aliasing, see how the fonts look without it in Opera 9.51, IE6, and the assembly of opera_wingogi_acid3 and with it. When switching browsers rebooted.
IE6
Opera 9.51
opera_wingogi_acid3
Differences only in the window title
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As a bonus, see how a large page looks like with
ClearType in Opera 9.51 and with
its own anti-aliasing system in opera_wingogi_acid3 . Reading the text and surfing is a pleasure!
It's funny that the assembly was ignored by the community for both support for @ font-face, and for the presence of its own rendering and anti-aliasing. And the reason for this can only be called scant
information in the release