IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality

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Post by bwag » Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 5:01 PM UTC

IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality
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Re: IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality

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Post by smiler » Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 5:10 PM UTC

Glad to see Microsoft getting on board with browser development and giving Mozilla, Google and Apple some competition.

I love Microsoft technology and when they put their minds to it, they do get it right I feel.

Re: IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality

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Post by GrandMasterBirt » Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 5:24 PM UTC

smiler wrote: post #2

Glad to see Microsoft getting on board with browser development and giving Mozilla, Google and Apple some competition. I love Microsoft technology and when they put their minds to it, they do get it right I feel.

This is exactly why I love competition. Now if only there was a possibility for a truly windows alternative. As in runs all windows apps.

Competition = forces everyone to innovate, even Microsoft. I still have a prediction that in 3 years Microsoft will rise again.

Re: IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality

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Post by teilo » Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 6:01 PM UTC

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.

Re: IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality

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Post by zephjc » Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 6:03 PM UTC

teilo wrote: post #4

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.

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

Re: IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality

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Post by henrikhansen » Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 6:13 PM UTC

What about raw text rendering and SVG rendering? I would like to see that as well

Re: IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality

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Post by bad_user » Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 6:15 PM UTC

zephjc wrote: post #5

teilo wrote: post #4

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.

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

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

Re: IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality

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Post by mrduncan » Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 6:18 PM UTC

Not having the source available screams rigged test to me.

Edit: If only because I remember what they tried to do with this chart - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/compare/d...

Re: IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality

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Post by may » Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 6:21 PM UTC

What about real text or something other than just a canned webpage? Like, for example, the front page of the Times or something.

Re: IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality

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Post by brandon » Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 6:22 PM UTC

zephjc wrote: post #5

teilo wrote: post #4

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.

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

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