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

[Werner LEMBERG]

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

Thanks for testing.  How comes that Alexei reports something different
on an *older* Windows version?  Note that on browserstack, both Chrome
and Edge use a version 40 engine...

> 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?

Correct.

> E.g. enable symmetrical smoothing per render call, not per library.

No, this is not possible.  Additionally, FreeType has never supported
non-symmetrical smoothing.


    Werner