API REVIEW request for RT-19042: Add fontSmoothingType API to WebView

Peter Zhelezniakov Peter.Zhelezniakov at oracle.com
Mon May 21 07:23:18 PDT 2012


> I've built and run the WebViewSample, with:
>    javafx-sdk2.2.0-beta
>    java version "1.6.0_26"
>    Linux 2.6.32-34-generic (Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, "Lucid Lynx") ARM 64
> 
> LCD smoothing looks horrible, making  the text difficult to read.
> Letter "p", for instance, is:
> 
> bXXXr
> b      r
> bXXVr
> b      r
> b      r
> b      r       (b: blue, X: black, r: red)
> 
> I vote for a global FontSmoothingType property.
> Global => at the WebView class level.

This was exactly what we did ;)
See WebView.fontSmoothingType property in recent 2.2 builds.

-- 
Peter


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