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Every Chrome derived application, including everything Electron, has substantially degraded font rendering compared to native apps on Windows. Just load the sam
by gcp 9y ago
Every Chrome derived application, including everything Electron, has substantially degraded font rendering compared to native apps on Windows. Just load the same text with the same fonts and look side by side. Best way to describe it would be that the fonts are fuzzier and have less well defined outlines. Must be some kind of hinting + subpixel-AA issue, or Chrome not respecting the system ClearType settings, or whatever. The bug has been there for ages. I wouldn't care if Chrome was the only thing suffering from it, since you can use another browser, but the appearance of good Electron apps like VSCode has made it very painful.
Maybe someday Microsoft will port VSCode to Chakra.
- pitaj 9y agoChakra is only the JS runtime of the Edge browser IIRC. So they'd have to open-source all of Edge in order to port VS Code to it instead (if they wanted to keep everything open source).