Lori Lay wrote: > DJS wrote: > >> I find this interesting. >> I work on a Mac 99% of the time doing development, but recently I've >> started a design for my new site. >> >> Italic text: FF Win doesn't smooth the text like IE Win does. (!?) >> >> Dare I say, the text looks better in IE Win, like it does on my Mac. >> >> I didn't find any setting in FF Win to change this, have I been missing >> this all along? >> >> - D >> >> >> > I don't think there's anything you can do in the browser. Font > smoothing is called the ClearType Tuning tool in Windows and it wasn't > included automatically in IE 6 or Win XP. It is included automatically > with IE 7. This affects the whole OS, not just the browser. It's a > utility you can run to customize the settings and makes a big difference > in viewing text on a LCD. > > I just tell my users to get it from Microsoft and install it ;-) > > Still not as good as a Mac, but a bit closer :-) > > > Lori > > > I guess it's one of those, "oh well" things. I try hard enough to make my site standard compliant, this is trivial. It will end up bugging me enough where I'll add it to the header background image and just display:none the real text. <sigh>
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