Re: [9fans] Antialised TrueType fonts

2025-02-26 Thread hiro
yes, i looked at it way too much, and i perceived that the color balance was often off causing annoying color fringing. also, the many different kinds of subpixel geometries nowadays are hard to keep track of, there are special displays with unequal number and irregular arrangements of r, g, b, w s

Re: [9fans] Antialised TrueType fonts

2025-02-26 Thread Paul Lalonde
Yes, that's the exact right observation - thank you. My next itch-scratch is likely to be sub-pixel glyph positioning in libframe to reduce the noise from metric aliasing. That leads to needing offset glyph variants, which will require extension of the font model. The knock-on effects are signif

Re: [9fans] Antialised TrueType fonts

2025-02-26 Thread Alyssa M via 9fans
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Re: [9fans] 9front as a webxdc app (deltachat)

2025-02-26 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
I have a similar idea I've been thinking through. I think the webxdc method is more complicated. A few weeks ago I was asking about "virtio 9p driver" support mainly for this reason. I think if the driver existed then a trusted backend could supply the fs and/or the IP stack over a 9p/websocket to

[9fans] 9front as a webxdc app (deltachat)

2025-02-26 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
Hi, I just wanted to share that some deltachat developer made 9front work as an webxdc app using v86 (the browser VM). Here's a fediverse thread with screenshots etc: https://fosstodon.org/@link2xt/114067539216670904 For those who don't know, deltachat is a chat platform that's using the exist