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This is not true ! UWP (which most of the internal app are porting into it), does use DirectWrite and there is no way to change its font rendering engine to Cl
by 0xFFC 10y ago
This is not true !
UWP (which most of the internal app are porting into it), does use DirectWrite and there is no way to change its font rendering engine to ClearType.
- becarefulyo 10y agoI think you're right, looks like it was only fixed for Edge. Discussion of technical challenge is here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150129-00/?p=44803 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150129-00/?p=...
- 0xFFC 10y agoIt got better for Edge after anniversary update. But I would not call that "fixed", because it is not on par with ClearType. Microsoft can go fuck himself, I am not going change my monitor/hardware everytime he wants. I would be much much happy with my Fedora/Ubuntu, or if I want good support there is always apple much superior to Microsoft.
- becarefulyo 10y agoApple uses grayscale font rendering too, not even pixel aligned. It looks nice because all of their devices are high DPI.
- 0xFFC 10y agoExactly, They know their hardware, and trying to optimize their software for their hardware. Microsoft do know what hardware people use (in third world country I would say 99% of people do use low dpi monitor), but they changed and ruined people experience anyway. That is the main point, they don't care about existing user. I bet if apple monitors was low-dpi monitor, apple would do everything they can to improve font rendering in their low-dpi monitors. Do you see the mindset?
- Jenya_ 10y agoUnlike Windows 10, Mac OS X still supports subpixel font antialiasing (similar to ClearType in Windows 7), it is called LCD font smoothing there, e.g.: https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/os-x-yosemite-disable-lcd-font-smoothing/ https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/os-x-yosemite-disable-lcd-font-...