david wrote: > Barney Carroll wrote: > >> Felix Miata wrote: >> >>>> So, in IE7 on a CRT monitor you have to switch it off, because otherwise >>>> the text is (in my opinion) harder to read, and looks pretty awful. >>>> >>> I think it looks very much worse disabled than enabled on all my functional >>> CRTs. See the screenshot examples in my upthread reply to the thread >>> starter. >>> >> This is very subjective. ClearType is not simple anti-aliasing as such, >> rather a color trick. On low dpi monitors (esp 800*600 and below), a >> garish outline of disorienting colours is visible around each letter. >> For those of us who suffer from red-green sensitivities, this can be >> absolutely awful. >> >> On many systems I far prefer to have it turned off. >> > > Anyway, since this is something done at the client end, neither CSS nor > Javascript as any way to change it. > > Wow, "Night of the living thread", "Son of Thread" and "Thread from the black lagoon" - Triple Feature.
>> Anyway, since this is something done at the client end, neither CSS nor >> Javascript as any way to change it. Let them eat straight type. It's not a life or death situation, as I stated in the OP, I hate the way it looks in FF with out clearType. As it stands I'm using display :none on the real text and a background image for the pretty text. Just another "one of those things" I guess. - DJS ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
