IEBlog : An Early Look At IE9 for Developers - What’s Direct2D, you ask? Well, from the looks of it, the salvation of type on Windows. Truly remarkable improvements. Can’t wait for all Windows browsers to start supporting this API.
Via Thomas Phinney.
Correction, 3/1/2010: It’s not actually Direct2D that enables beautiful text on Windows. Rather, it’s a different, but related API new to Windows 7: DirectWrite. Direct2D provides hardware acceleration, but it’s DirectWrite that provides the improved text drawing system. My bad.
