[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 43373] New: Fonts not getting antialiased in some instances on win32

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43373

           Summary: Fonts not getting antialiased in some instances on
                    win32
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKit wx
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: mmacleod at webmail.co.za


In some situations on Windows (XP - not sure about others?) if anti aliasing is not set as the system default quality then wxWebkit will render fonts without anti aliasing, this can look really bad and probably most of the time is not what people want(even though they have system wide anti aliasing off).
I believe the correct behavior should be to enable anti-aliasing for all fonts by default and then, if people really want to turn it off although I'm not sure why they would want this for a web browser, to have an option to do so.
The attached patch will ensure that all fonts are anti-aliased if possible. (The method it uses to do this is not ideal, ideally this flag should be set ONCE when the font is create instead, however the wxWidgets API currently makes this slightly difficult to achieve the attached is a workaround until a more acceptable method can be achieved - possibly by patching wxWidgets itself)

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