On: An introduction to the Haiku OS

[ihodes]

Or, you know, text smoothing. Antialiasing. Silly stuff like that ;)

[sp332 → ihodes]

Haiku icons are actually stored in a vector format instead of bitmap. That means all icons are resolution-independent and antialiased. Also, since the format was designed for icons, the filesize is so small that the data will usually fit in the same block as inode data, so the file takes effectively 0 space on the HD!

[i80and → ihodes]

Haiku... has font smoothing? In fact, they just recently activated hinting. Icons are anti-aliased too. I guess I'm unclear on what you're saying.

[brewin → ihodes]

Haiku has sub-pixel rendering and every drawing operation is antialiased.

[pyre → brewin]

  > every drawing operation is antialiased.

I'm hoping that's optional. It seems like there are a lot of things that you might not want to be auto-magically AA'd.