[cairo] Mozilla on Cairo

Robert O'Callahan rocallahan at novell.com
Mon May 30 06:05:51 PDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 21:42 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 00:27 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> > 
> >>For things like user interfaces, I would consider FSAA out of the
> >>question.
>  
> 4x oversampling in each dimension gives 16 levels of a pixel coverage
> estimate for each pixel, which is still a factor of 16 short of 256,
> which can be achieved with calculating pixel coverage and alpha factor.

Why is 256-level antialasing absolutely essential for UIs?

Rob




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