On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 03:04 PM, Francesco Schiavon wrote:
At 13:14 -0700 6/5/03, Ben Sharvy wrote:
The problem is that different browsers render the spacing in the text
track
differently, so that sometimes text near the bottom gets shoved off
the bottom
of the frame and isn't visible.
The problem is not the browsers but the platforms. Macs render at 72
dpi while PeeCeez use 96 dpi making all your text appear larger on
Windblows.
The difference between Macs would be because the font is not exactly
the same one.
Yes, maybe this is true in a legacy or default case - but there is
*nothing* stopping Quicktime from rendering type at identical size (in
pixels) on both platforms and in all browsers, and this should be
(IMHO) the behavior. Some Web browsers, for instance, take this tact
when rendering HTML - that type at a given pt size should render to the
same pixel size regardless of platforms; some don't, out of some
strange sense of loyalty to an arbitrary spec (none of my monitors are
72dpi, nor 96dpi, so they are purely abstract standards anyway).
Arguably, typography created for on-screen display should render
identically across platforms. This is up to the software developer, not
the platform vendor. In fact, Photoshop does just this as well - it
certainly doesn't up-scale my type layers when I move a PSD over to a
Windows box just because I set their sizes in pts.
I'm curious as to why QT may even be rendering type differently on
different browsers on the same platform, as the original poster claims
(I haven't verified or refuted that myself); that's even worse.
I don't think all of this is a bug (strictly speaking), but it's surely
bad design as it seriously limits the usefulness of text tracks in QT
without providing any conceivable benefit.
Best,
roger howard / email@hidden
digital media specialist / |bergeek
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