[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 73173] fillText() and strokeText() handle fractional pixel values differently

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73173


Dirk Schulze <krit at webkit.org> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Dirk Schulze <krit at webkit.org>  2014-04-05 13:14:06 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Here's a better example: http://goo.gl/W7bkG
> 
> The stroke and fill are always drawn at the same level, so while the text as a whole should shimmer up and down a bit, the inside fill should never appear to move up or down a different amount than the outline.

I can just guess that it has to do with hinting. It needs further investigation. In SVG we have the text-rendering property which can be set to geometric precision[1].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-rendering

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