Xft Support For Mozilla

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.

Comments

Topic: you .sig on transgaming

[Odinson]

Hello, thanks fo the link.

I checked out transgaming and I think I like what I see, but how do we know how many people have signed up so far.

Are there statistics availible? It seems only fair for me since I would be signing up mainly as a way to contribute to Wine.

Re:Oh dear

[st. augustine]

I love it when people can't tell the difference between "I hate it" and "It sucks."

These statements are equivelant. Implicit in the phrase, "It sucks." is the phrase, "In my opinion." since there is no objective measure of "suckiness".

Okay, then let me rephrase:

I love it when people present their opinions as facts.

For instance, "That font smoothing stuff is *really* hard on the eyes" would appear to be a fact, but actually it's an opinion. So is "With a sharp 17" it's not an improvement".

P.S. Either your spelling or your typing sucks.