177467 - integrating freetype in windows version ?

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, enhancement)

Description

[MozGeek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021023 Phoenix/0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021023 Phoenix/0.3

can freetype be integrated into phoenix for windows versions ?
Or would it be too much of an effort ?

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[David Tenser [:djst]]

What do you mean with freetype?

Comment 2

[m.]

I think he meant anti-aliased fonts..

Comment 3

[MozGeek]

Use of freetype library for font display could deliver some serious benefits 
for phoenix, besides anti-aliased fonts.
1. faster rendering of fonts.
2. better font display.
3. better control.

won't this help phoenix to be faster ?

/* for the fresh to freetype I refer you to www.freetype.org 
The linux guys already enjoying this cool library. */

Comment 4

[André Dahlqvist]

This seams like a very big change that would probably need to happen in Mozilla
itself. Reassigning to Mozilla.

Comment 5

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

over to bstell, who seems to own most of the open freetype bugs. Could you
either confirm this, if it's a valid (if distant) RFE, or mark it INVALID if
it's not going to happen?

Comment 6

[kill this account]

This would be a big project.

As far as I know this is not on anyone's radar and without someone being really
interested in this it won't happen or be maintained.

Comment 7

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->nobody, then. If you can find anyone willing to do this, they can always
reassign to themselves.