Comment on IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering QualityComments−teilo16yIt would be nice if he would link to the test page he is using, so that we could see what this looks like on non-windows platforms.−zephjc16yI was looking for it too - I've never seen Safari render anything that badly, and I'm not convinced until I see it in person−brandon16yThis article is actually espousing the fillText (Canvas) rendering quality and not standard HTML text rendering.Here's a screenshot of the source PDF viewed in Preview.app on OSX with "Actual Size" zoom: http://cl.ly/1nr0−bad_user16yFrom the TFA ... All of the text is rendered with the canvas .fillText.Of course you haven't seen anything that badly since there aren't many HTML5 apps around that render text on canvas. Duh!Here, you can create your own test page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_text_using_a_canvas
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It would be nice if he would link to the test page he is using, so that we could see what this looks like on non-windows platforms.
I was looking for it too - I've never seen Safari render anything that badly, and I'm not convinced until I see it in person
This article is actually espousing the fillText (Canvas) rendering quality and not standard HTML text rendering.
Here's a screenshot of the source PDF viewed in Preview.app on OSX with "Actual Size" zoom: http://cl.ly/1nr0
From the TFA ... All of the text is rendered with the canvas .fillText.
Of course you haven't seen anything that badly since there aren't many HTML5 apps around that render text on canvas. Duh!
Here, you can create your own test page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_text_using_a_canvas