And yet there is something to what Mr. Sell says. Blow up the screen shot above, 4x say, and compare the IE (top) and OW (bot) rendering of "Mac" Regards, Nelson Byrne On Thursday, May 24, 2001, at 08:00 PM, Mac Internet Explorer Talk wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Sell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]=20 > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:00 AM > To: IE Mailing List > Subject: Re: Favorites Bar and LCDs -- can't something be done? > > Hmmm, that must not be true everywhere in the application -- what about > the > left hand pane of the preferences where you select which preference > category > you want? On my screen I see white around the edges of all the text > when > it's selected -- something's not happening correctly there. Is this a > CoreGraphics problem as well? > > -Steve > > On 5/24/01 12:32 AM, "Jimmy Grewal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The text you are talking about is being anti-aliased by the same > Quartz >> (CoreGraphics) anti-aliasing algorithm that OmniWeb uses. If you have > a >> complaint about the quality of text anti-aliasing, you should complain >> to Apple. The only way to improve the quality of the text on an LCD >> monitor is for Apple to use sub-pixel anti-aliasing. >> =20 >> You might also try downloading "TinkerTool" to adjust the Mac OS X > text >> anti-aliasing settings. >> =20 >> -Jimmy >> =20 >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steve Sell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 8:21 PM >> To: IE Mailing List >> Subject: Favorites Bar and LCDs -- can't something be done? >> =20 >> I have to agree the text in the favorites bar is completely > unacceptable >> on >> an LCD (specifically PB G4). With the increasing number of laptops > out >> there (and Apple's recent move to an all-LCD lineup), can't something > be >> done to turn off the anti-aliasing in carbon apps? I am aware of the >> difference between the anti-aliasing in carbon apps vs. what cocoa >> provides >> (font-smoothing? -- I always get this backward). This can easily be >> seen by >> firing up OmniWeb and looking at text that=B9s the same size. >> =20 >> I know this isn't an MS specific problem, but can the anti-alias be >> turned >> off when this kind of thing happenes. Intuitively, it seems it must > be >> because other apps do it... >> =20 >> -Steve >> =20 >> =20 >> To unsubscribe send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To search the archives: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/macie-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> >> =20 >> To unsubscribe send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To search the archives: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/macie-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > > > To unsubscribe send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To search the archives:=20 > <http://www.mail-archive.com/macie-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
