[webkit-dev] Cross-platform fonts for Layout Tests

Hao Zheng zhenghao at chromium.org
Thu Jun 2 01:29:15 PDT 2011


Actually, even the same Ahem font will be rendered differently on
different platform, depending on the font drawing library, the
anti-aliasing algorithm, subpixel, tiny float-point calculation diff
on different arch.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
> I know that Ahem is safe to use across multiple platforms (the font metrics
> will be the same).  Do we know if there are any other fonts for which this
> is true?
> I'd like to make the style-bot yell at people when they use pixel tests with
> non-safe fonts.  Right now that list would only include ahem.
> -eric
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