STABLE version -- 4.2.10.171

[rch]

Because other browsers don't CARE. They have bigger teams, but are more committed to other features and just plain don't care about DirectWrite and see no problem with it being removed.

Meanwhile, Cent has a team of LITERALLY THREE PEOPLE. So yeah, methinks all the delays correlate directly to having too few people bearing the load of building and updating a browser.

And you know they don't care how? How do you know they haven't tried to put the Direct Write option in and given up because it's too much work or too difficult. Advanced Chrome couldn't do it which is why they ended up with a workaround of sorts. If there was some widely available code that no-one could be bothered to include, I would agree with you, but it's not like that.

Just throwing more people at a problem doesn't mean it will all get solved. The Cent devs might be of the opinion that you could throw 10 people at the problem and it won't help. Trying to put something previously removed completely back into software as complex as a browser that has major updates every 6 weeks must be no easy task. It's a moving target all the time.

Anyway, they've made it quite clear more than once that they don't want help of that variety. Whether they change their mind in future is anyone's guess but for now, we just need to accept their stance and offer useful feedback in other ways.