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I tried to say this before about the problems with bilinear vs nearest neighbor rendering with images, but I think that Canvas 2D should define what fillText does in a stricter way so that it is more uniform across browsers. Here's a simple pixel font example using a truetype font http://assaultwars.com/javascript/fontface.html IE9 currently handles this in a very sane way. It renders without cleartype support when using fillText which I believe should be the defined standard. That is when you render text it should fill the text with exactly the color you define without applying transformations for LCD striping (by using patented techniques). Currently things look like this on each major browser: IE9: http://assaultwars.com/pictures/04b_03ComparisonIE9.png http://assaultwars.com/pictures/04b_03ComparisonIE9Magnified.png Chrome 10: http://assaultwars.com/pictures/04b_03ComparisonChrome10.png http://assaultwars.com/pictures/04b_03ComparisonChrome10Magnified.png FF4: http://assaultwars.com/pictures/04b_03ComparisonFF4.png http://assaultwars.com/pictures/04b_03ComparisonFF4Magnified.png This would also allow pixel fonts to be legible since they're currently not in most browsers.
mass-move component to LC1
Philip, any input on this?
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