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Electron uses platform-native font rendering. It's just Chromium, and Chromium uses Uniscribe on Windows and CoreText on Mac. Compare Chrome on Windows and Mac,
by OskarS 8y ago
Electron uses platform-native font rendering. It's just Chromium, and Chromium uses Uniscribe on Windows and CoreText on Mac. Compare Chrome on Windows and Mac, you'll see the difference in text rendering.
- badsectoracula 8y agoDon't worry, people will simply start using Qt for WebAssembly with Electron to fix that issue.
- jcelerier 8y agouh... what ? the text on all electron apps looks like a blurred shit on my machine, and does not look at all like the text settings I apply.
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- toyg 8y agoNobody cares. Developers use Electron because it gives consistent results across platforms, not because it looks native. If Chromium were to switch to a custom font renderer that looks exactly the same on all platforms, no developer using Electron would care - in fact, they would probably like it even more.
- OskarS 8y agoI care! I care a lot! Good font rendering makes SO much difference in how stuff looks. No joke: font rendering is the number one reason I prefer the look of macOS over Windows (especially now since WSL exists). I realize I'm a weirdo font nerd and probably alone in that stance, but working with computers mean staring at text on a screen for hours and hours every day. It fucking better be rendered right.