> This is a very unscientific test. Obviously, the browser which supports
> anti-aliasing (albeit only on one platform) "looks better" than those
> that don't. Other than that, there's not much to choose between them.

I thought the anti-aliased text was the ugliest.  Maybe it looks better than
normal text at high resolutions, but at 800x600 it looks blurry and makes
curved lines look thicker than straight lines.

> A far better question to ask is "which renders the page the way the
> author intended"? HTML is not a language for specifying pixel-perfect
> layout (CSS helps to do this) and so, if things are not specified,
> user-agents have a lot of freedom in how the render things, and one
> rendering is no more "right" than another. Therefore asking someone to
> judge which page "looks better" is silly - if you say "Hmm, I like the
> spacing between those two blocks of text in Browser X", it could be that
> it's caused by a bug in Browser X and the other browsers are getting it
> right. Is Browser X's rendering still "better"?

As long as two browsers are both right, there's no reason to throw out
someone's opinion that one looks better.



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