Re: [ft-devel] [smooth] Implement minimal dynamic padding for LCD filtering. -- Still breaks Firefox

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2017.05.30 at 14:20 -0400, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >
> > > Just for reference, what should be off-limits to client code?
> >
> > Simply don't rely on internals.  Use only the API and the public data
> > structures.  If this isn't sufficient, file a bug report so that we
> > can discuss extensions.  For some reasons, the Skia team didn't do
> > that – I guess the code in question is a remnant from early,
> > experimental subpixel support.
> >
> 
> The funny thing that they want to move in the opposite direction and bundle
> FreeType.
> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-packagers/xhmgu-1Vcok
> There are folks that consider that to be more secure :). That is a
> "solution" to all problems. Amazing!

They already have done so. Version 60 will use the bundled freetype by
default. (But one can set use_system_freetype=true.)

-- 
Markus