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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jul 2016
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Compat



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Using Chromium 51 within Electron/nw.js: grayscale antialiasing instead of subpixel

Reported by benjamin...@gmail.com, Jul 6 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Safari/537.36

Example URL:

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Download Electron 1.2.6 from https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v1.2.6/electron-v1.2.6-win32-x64.zip
2. Unzip and run it on Windows
3. Make a screen shot in the resulting window and zoom in
4. Notice that font is anti aliased using grayscale instead of subpixel anti alias

What is the expected behavior?
1. Download an older Electron version before they updated to Chrome 51 (e.g. https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v1.1.3/electron-v1.1.3-win32-x64.zip)
2. follow the same steps and notice nice subpixel anti alias

What went wrong?
See the attached images to make the comparison.

Does it occur on multiple sites: N/A

Is it a problem with a plugin? N/A 

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? N/A 

Chrome version: 51.0.2704.106  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0

We would like to learn why this issue is there in the first place since we cannot reproduce it when doing the same screenshot in Chrome 51 normal. Something with the way Electron/nw.js embedds Chromium must cause this anti aliasing problem. Some pointers where to look for are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
 
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Ping, can someone give feedback on this issue?
Cc: tkonch...@chromium.org
Labels: M-51
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Able to reproduce the issue on win8.1 with the two versions v1.2.6 and v1.1.3

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Comment 3 by wen...@gmail.com, Jul 21 2016

I just tried NW.js 0.16.0 and it's working well in the same way with Chrome browser.
Components: Blink>Fonts

Comment 5 by e...@chromium.org, Jul 22 2016

Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
Please file a bug with Electron. We do not support third party products built on top of chrome.

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