Narins, Josh wrote: > From: Craig Dickson [mailto:crdic@pacbell.net] > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:51 PM > > [snip] > > Display resolution has, of course, been increasing gradually for years. > Eventually we'll reach a point where the jaggies recede into > near-invisibility. At that point, there will be much less need for > anti-aliasing, but we're not there yet. > > [end snip] > > At that point, the blurriness nature of anti-aliasing will also smaller. > > <shrug /> Yes, but anti-aliasing, to the best of my understanding (I've never written, nor studied the implementation of, an anti-aliasing font renderer), is extra work beyond what's necessary to generate non-anti-aliased glyphs. Once the jaggies are sufficiently small that they're not a bother, why not make the font engine faster, and its code simpler, by discarding the anti-aliasing? If I'm wrong about this, and if in fact it isn't extra work to anti-alias text, then sure, who cares if it stays in or not. Craig
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