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    <p>Sadly not yet (as of 2013-10-31, no Chromium channels supports this feature out-of-the-box).</p> <p>If you look at the latest <a href="https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/master/Source/platform/RuntimeEnabledFeatures.in" rel="nofollow">RuntimeEnabledFeatures.in</a>, <code>DirectWrite</code> doesn't have any <code>status</code> assigned to it. According to <a href="http://www.chromium.org/blink/runtime-enabled-features" rel="nofollow">Blink document</a>, users cannot enable a feature via <code>about:flags</code> unless <code>status=experimental</code> is assigned.</p> <p>But hopefully soon, so windows users may have a better time with web fonts :)</p> <p><strong>Update 2013-11-16</strong>: with <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541#c57" rel="nofollow">latest issue 25541 comment</a>, it seems we are very close to be able to enable DirectWrite in Canary. </p> <p><strong>Update 2014-01-04</strong>: Canary build now has a <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541#c61" rel="nofollow">command line switch</a> that can enable DirectWrite font rendering, but disabling sandbox mode are required (not safe for everyday browsing). There are also a few font rendering problem associate with it. Hopefully they can get them fixed and add this feature to <code>about:flags</code> soon.</p> <p><strong>Update 2014-05-09</strong>: latest Canary build (m36) now has proper support for DirectWrite within sandbox mode (implemented via <a href="https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=333029" rel="nofollow">issue 333029</a>), which means developers can enable DW directly by going to <code>about:flags#enable-direct-write</code>. As for consumers, Google is targeting release on <a href="http://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar" rel="nofollow">m37</a>.</p> <p><strong>Update 2014-08-09</strong>: <a href="http://blog.chromium.org/2014/07/chrome-37-beta-directwrite-on-windows.html" rel="nofollow">Chrome 37 beta enables DirectWrite by default</a>, expect Chrome 37 official release to have it by default as well.</p> <p><strong>Update 2014-08-31</strong>: Chrome 37 stable release has <a href="http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/08/stable-channel-update_26.html" rel="nofollow">DirectWrite enabled by default</a>! Just note that users can still turn it off at <code>about:flags</code> (some of them use MacType instead).</p>
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