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Stephen Downes

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This article begins by referencing Alexis Beingessner's Text Rendering Hates You, posted a month ago, and well worth the read. It picks up where Beingessener left off. Both article study the nuances of rendering text in a web browser (or digital screen generally) and make it pretty clear why it's so complex. As Robert Lord writes, "it's a miracle of the simplicity of modern programming that we're able to just slap down a textarea on a web page and instantly provide a text input for every internet user around the globe.

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