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According to this post, Silverlight 3 will have ClearType rendering (in final release, not the beta). Yay!
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Mark - font rendering quality is not a functional requirement. With all due respect, If you are thinking only of features and functions you will never beat Flash. Please talk to some professional designers, or some UI experts. Design matters a lot to the user experience. Ask someone on the Blend team if they would be happy having their UI rendered ...
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Great Michail.
I think this might turn out to be a significant marketing factor come October. When Apple releases Leopard, with resolution independence, they will likely also release new laptops and screens with higher-DPI. Suddenly all the Digerati with their shiny new Macbook Pro's will be shocked when their Flash apps shrink to near ...
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Is Silverlight resolution-independent, like WPF? A quick test says no: when I change the DPI setting in Vista a Silverlight 1.1 sample does not change in appearance. It would be a shame if resolution independence was sacrificed.
Jonathan
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Thanks for the answer, Mark.
It's just that I am designing a UI with a lot of text, and I've drunk the ClearType Kool-Aid. Most people never notice the difference, but *I* do. Maybe I should just get over it. But WPF font rendering is so sweet...
FWIW, Apollo doesn't do subpixel antialiasing either, though of course Flash ...
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I notice ClearType is not working for text in Silverlight, either in IE or FF. Hope that's on the list. - Jonathan