RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 100188 6135
WebKit should render ligatures
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6135
Summary WebKit should render ligatures
mitz
Reported 2005-12-18 10:15:45 PST
The CG code path in WebTextRenderer does not render automatic ligatures.
Attachments
testcase for ligature (407 bytes, text/html)
2022-12-26 19:44 PST, Karl Dubost
no flags
rendering in safari, firefox, chrome (133.68 KB, image/png)
2022-12-26 19:46 PST, Karl Dubost
no flags
Timothy Hatcher
Comment 1 2008-10-17 09:26:27 PDT
We should consider using ligatures in text runs that are greater than some large font size. So headlines and things look good. That might be acceptable performance wise.
mitz
Comment 2 2008-10-17 09:31:43 PDT
Setting a font size threshold may be problematic for things that smoothly animate size.
Karl Dubost
Comment 3 2022-12-26 19:44:00 PST
Created attachment 464218 [details] testcase for ligature This is probably solved.
Karl Dubost
Comment 4 2022-12-26 19:46:17 PST
Created attachment 464219 [details] rendering in safari, firefox, chrome The rendering in Firefox and Safari is working The one in Chrome not so much.
mitz
Comment 5 2022-12-26 19:53:05 PST
Bug 99113 addressed the "CG code path" part of this, and bug 100188 enabled ligatures by default. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 100188 ***
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