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Re: Sharpness
by Andre Somers on Tuesday 11/Jul/2006, @13:28

Of course I clicked on them. It is the text I am worried about. Antialiasing is fine, but this looks out of focus, and would be very tiresome on the eyes. I tried reading the KDE page screenshot, and I'm glad my KDE 3.5.3's Konqueror renders a sharper page...
Back to my question: can I conclude this effect is real then?

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Re: Sharpness
by anonymous on Tuesday 11/Jul/2006, @13:44

Just so I understand, you are "concerned" about the ?fonts? in a pre-alpha port of a web browser to a new platform? It can't render flash yet either. OMG!

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Re: Sharpness
by Torsten Rahn on Tuesday 11/Jul/2006, @13:51

Are you looking at those screenshots on a CRT? The screenshots are using subpixel rendering which definately will look odd on a CRT ...

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Re: Sharpness
by Quintesse on Tuesday 11/Jul/2006, @14:58

Well, I'm using a TFT and it really hurts my eyes looking at those screenshots. So either my pixel arrangement is different from the poster's or the poster has a really wacky setup which he got used to and actually thinks is sharper than what he had before ;-)

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Re: Sharpness
by superstoned on Tuesday 11/Jul/2006, @22:05

I don't like the fonts either, but i'm sure its a setting, just like it is now... you can configure the look of your fonts ;-)

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Re: Sharpness
by Brandybuck on Tuesday 11/Jul/2006, @22:15

You're looking at a screenshot of subpixel anti-aliasing, not actual anti-aliasing.

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Re: Sharpness
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Wednesday 12/Jul/2006, @01:36

I think it's the subpixel arrangement. If I'm an inch or so from the screen, it appears that the subpixels are "reversed" from where they should be... i.e., the red is on the right side of the pixel and that's down the right side of the character creating a halo effect on that side. Same goes for the left.

I'm sure it looks great if your screen physically matches the subpixel layout.

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eyes in pain, full subpixel hinting
by ((o) (o)) on Thursday 13/Jul/2006, @06:57

I'm using full hinting here, and the screenshots look actually very painful to my eyes. It's as if they were horizontally blurred

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Re: eyes in pain, full subpixel hinting
by Paul Eggleton on Thursday 13/Jul/2006, @13:37

Perhaps the hinting was set up differently on the machine where the screenshots were taken. Different monitors sometimes require different sub-pixel hinting styles due to the way the screen is laid out.

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