On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 4:24 PM, wctaiwan <wctaiwan+lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't think we should prioritise users with font
smoothing disabled.
ClearType has been available since at least Windows XP. If there are
legibility issues, we should probably fix it; but if it merely looks
ugly, the solution is for the users to enable font smoothing if they
want prettier font rendering.
I too was surprised at how many users are A) on XP with ClearType off,
which is the default there or B) turn font smoothing off intentionally.
I should note that by fixing this bug we won't be changing the appearance
for users on most platforms, except those on Windows who have these two
fonts (Arimo, Liberation Sans), so we're not degrading the quality of font
rendering just to optimize for those without smoothing.