Chrome text rendering woes! ➛ Discourse Bugs
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So, Chrome has been updated again, and yet again they've broken an integral part of the browser.
They recently overhauled how the text gets rendered, and as a result the font kerning is horribly broken.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
The second example is admittedly more subtle, but this update makes it difficult to read certain sites. This forum included
I've reported the bug, but I'm not holding my breath.
It's interesting to note: this isn't an issue on Android. Can anyone repro this on Linux? I suspect that this is a Windows specific bug, I can repro this problem across all of my Windows machines.
Filed under: I am disappoint
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your exhibits are fully functional and informative
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I couldn't upload my screen grab of the missing images. Is the server full?
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Can you not see the images? Let me see what I can do...
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Something's not right with the server:
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@algorythmics, @Keith, I think I've fixed the images.
Can you see them now?
Filed under: My first topic in days, and it's off to a fucking great start
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They're there now.
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It took me several attempts to upload my new avatar yesterday evening. I had to remove the previous custom one before it would let me. I figured it was a temporary glitch, but it sounds like it could be space related.
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They're there now.
He hyperlinked from another server.
EDIT: Sorry, misinterpreted your post.
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Noticed, but I'm - also - getting errors trying to paste images.
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Thanks for letting me know, I'll hotlink from elsewhere until it's fixed.
Filed under: Discourse is really stepping up its game now it's V1
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This font kerning is doing my head in
The whole site looks like this, with random letters crammed together and other random letters miles apart.
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my statement functions in both circumstances, so an edit is unrequired, now it just appears I was disinterested, rather than sarcastic.
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The whole site looks like this, with random letters crammed together and other random letters miles apart.
That's what you get when the font's metrics don't match the glyphs. (I don't know which is right, if any, but I know that they don't belong together and the glyphs actually being used are ugly too. And thosecs…)Oh well, at least they're fairly close: when they're very wrong things get a lot worse.
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I don't know if it's fixed but when I dropped to mobile to upload a screenshot from my phone, it went smooth.
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No Repro with Chromium, but i only have 36.something available through apt
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I don't know if it's fixed but when I dropped to mobile to upload a screenshot from my phone, it went smooth.
I can't repro it on mobile, I can only repro it on Windows so far, but I haven't got any other non mobile OS.
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Oblig. XKCD
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It only shows up on Windows as they just swapped from using GDI to render text to using DirectWrite instead. It is a new thing in 37+.
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CNR; text looks just fine on my chrome on windows.
also pasting an image into here seems to work again.
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Looks OK in beta 38, too.
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Yup - same version, all seems fine.
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Is any of those fonts Mac system fonts e.g. Helvetica neue or similar? If you have those installed it tends to fuck up horrifically.
