Re: [ft-devel] rendering mode of Firefox on Windows 10

[Nikolay Sivov]

On 05.11.2015 20:35, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Folks,
>
>
> according to browserstack, the current release 41 of Firefox on
> Windows 10 seems still to use the GDI framework, which implies font
> rasterizer version 37, compatible widths ClearType, no supixel
> positioning, and no vertical smoothing (i.e., B/W rasterization along
> the vertical axis) – this is exactly the same rendering mode as used
> on Win XP.
>
> Is this really true?  For me, it's hard to believe...
>
>    http://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/rasterinfo/rasterinfo.html

Just tried that in a VM, and yes, your test page reports version 37, 
compatible ClearType, no symmetrical smoothing.

By the way, is there a way to enable any of that in freetype? I know I 
can set engine version to 38, does it mean a set of parameters will be 
applied and there's no way to switch dynamically from one to another? 
E.g. enable symmetrical smoothing per render call, not per library.