Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Jul 2007 12:50 UTC, submitted by GhePeU
"Joel Spolsky in his article 'Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering' compares Microsoft and Apple ways of text rendering and explains why windows people don't like Safari. Text in Safari looks too blurry and that must be why. I want to go further and sum up my experience and observations about it. I'm not an expert in digital typography, but I 'have something to say'. At least, some ideas may be useful for the GNU/Linux community."
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Avalon's not really taking off, Kaiwai. It really looks awesome to see the UI scale, but I don't think Avalon's going to go into the mainstream because it's managed-only. It'll be good for custom apps and LOB tools, but mainstream programs are not going to move over to it. That stuff will go unmanaged sooner or later (The next Windows or the one after it).
Pardon? there is nothing stopping someone from mixing their code, both managed and unmanaged.
The problem is that if they go avalon, they break compatibility and thus lock themselves out of the Windows XP market - it would be a death sentence for a company if they did something like that.
With that being said, contra to the 'doom and gloom', Windows Vista sales are going pretty well; for products like Adobe, it uses its own custom rendering engine. As for Microsoft, I'd assume they use the default widgets which sit ontop of Avalon.
It all takes time - just as it takes time on MacOS X for applications to move to Quartz.
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2006-01-02
Avalon's not really taking off, Kaiwai. It really looks awesome to see the UI scale, but I don't think Avalon's going to go into the mainstream because it's managed-only. It'll be good for custom apps and LOB tools, but mainstream programs are not going to move over to it. That stuff will go unmanaged sooner or later (The next Windows or the one after it).