94934 - let Mozilla use AntiAliased fonts on Mac

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Frank Tang]

Since MacOS 8.5, it is possible that we can use Anti Alias fonts to render text
on Mac. We should consider that for mozilla.

For details. read the following APIs:
SetAntiAliasedTextEnabled
IsAntiAliasedTextEnabled
Both api is document in the new font manager refnerence without details. These
two APIs are listed as supported by Carbon.

The following APIs are also listed in the new font mananger reference, but are
listed as not supported by Carbon. Again, no clear documentation for them:
AntiTextGetApplicationAware
AntiTextGetEnabled
AntiTextIsAntiAliased
AntiTextSetApplicationAware
AntiTextSetEnabled

In additional, we should read TN1149 Smoothing Fonts (
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1149.html ) before making such
decision since antialias imply using Outline font and there are many quality
issue we need to aware before do so.

Be aware such api are global setting, not sure how can it fit into multi thread
world.

Comment 1

[Steve K]

This bug has the platform listed as MacOSX.  I'm not sure what the issues it is
discussing are (it seems to me the fonts on my fizzilla build _are_ anti-aliased).

Doing higher quality font rendering under OSX is covered more thoroughly in bug
74245, which covers using Quartz font rendering to bring OSX's beautiful native
font support to Mozilla.  

Should this bug be changed to be a MacOS8,9 issue, or a dup of bug 74245?

Comment 2

[Frank Tang]

hum.... somehow my Japanese font display as anti-alias but not my chinese fonts.

Comment 3

[Frank Tang]

assign

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

ok, I am confused. close this bug. 

Comment 5

[Yuying Long]

Verified as won't fix.

Comment 6

[Yuying Long]

Verified as won't fix.