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Xft Support For Mozilla

Posted by timothy on from the one-order-of-augmented-lizard dept.

keithp writes "The results of a few short hours of hacking by blizzard (with a bit of help from me) can be seen here." According to Keith, "The hope is to have a patch of less than 100 lines; currently it's more like 400 lines. ... The patch uses a new version of the Xft library available at http://keithp.com. That will be integrated into the XFree86 CVS tree after 4.2 stablizes; the existing Xft library will remain in place for backwards compatibility. One feature of the new library is that it works with older X servers that don't have the Render extension, providing AA text (including the LCD optimizations) for any screen with a TrueColor visual." Chris Blizzard provided a link to the patch itself, as it stands right now.

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  1. Nice link... by FortKnox · · Score: 4, Funny

    the first link autocloses the window...

    And am I the only one that thought "Wow, Blizzard stopped coding for WarCraft 3 to help Mozilla out?!?"

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  2. Re:Mozilla just keeps getting cooler. by pergamon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm pretty sure emacs fanatics will tell you that emacs already is the emacs of the browser world.

  3. Re:Mozilla just keeps getting cooler. by iceburn · · Score: 2, Funny

    vim junkies will probably say the same thing about emacs, but I don't think they'll mean it in the same way as the emacs fanatics ;)

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