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

Adam Barth abarth at webkit.org
Thu Jun 2 10:44:24 PDT 2011


I thought the whole point of Ahem was to avoid those problems.

Adam


On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Hao Zheng <zhenghao at chromium.org> wrote:
> 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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