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Bug 731298 - Improve fonts rendering
Improve fonts rendering
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-06-05 22:42 UTC by 10lyah+cry6k1yl9z04w
Modified: 2015-02-19 23:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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2014-06-05 22:43 UTC, 10lyah+cry6k1yl9z04w 		Details

Description 10lyah+cry6k1yl9z04w 2014-06-05 22:42:10 UTC 
I want to point out an issue with Epiphany which is one of the two major ones that stop me from making it my default web browser. I'm talking about fonts rendering. Let's take a look at an example - open https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1. The screenshots of how this page looks like in different browsers are in the attached archive. Clearly, Epiphany makes reading of such long articles a horror.
Comment 1 10lyah+cry6k1yl9z04w 2014-06-05 22:43:19 UTC 
Created attachment 277977 [details]
screenshots
Comment 2 André Klapper 2014-06-06 14:21:43 UTC 
Which version is this about? How to define when this is "fixed"?
Comment 3 10lyah+cry6k1yl9z04w 2014-06-06 17:08:34 UTC 
1. I noticed it a long time ago, so I think it's a general problem, but if it matters that much, than I'll say I'm using GNOME Web 3.12.
2. We could keep on checking how fonts look on different web pages and consider this bug fixed when the fonts are legible enough to read without hurting one's eyes. I know it can be very subjective, but nothing else comes to my mind.
Comment 4 Michael Catanzaro 2014-06-06 17:25:41 UTC 
[1] includes a screenshot demonstrating the font rendering regression.

[1] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2014-June/001957.html
Comment 5 Michael Catanzaro 2015-02-19 23:54:47 UTC 
This is a woff font, so it's probably https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140994