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Looking at this 'virtual' text editor the text looks pretty smooth, until you get really close. Would it be possible to import typefaces as paths, and antialias

Looking at this 'virtual' text editor the text looks pretty smooth, until you get really close. Would it be possible to import typefaces as paths, and antialias them? How do native apps do this, while also using hardware acceleration? Also, native apps can access sub-pixels for antialiasing, which I don't think is possible in a WebGL context. I've seen OpenGL GUIs before, but I wonder what limits them compared to native apps, particularly when it comes to text and sub-pixel antialiasing.

moron4hire 12y ago
Actually, there is another open source project in the world that does that. It's called fontpath, I believe, and it reads OTF files directly. I'm considering switching to it, as the HTML5 Text API isn't hardware accelerated and a huge amount of the processing time is being spent in the fillText method. https://github.com/mattdesl/fontpath https://github.com/mattdesl/fontpath