One thing that I've heard from a few people is that when you put IE and
firefox (on windows) side by side, you can see that fthe fonts in IE are
much clearer.

This is usually because Windows XP does not enable ClearType (sub-pixel
anti-aliasing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType) by default for all
applications - just for IE.

If you want firefox/win to look better, there's a setting somewhere in
control panel for this.

I know that there are linux sub-pixel anti-aliasing implementations, but
couldn't really say how to configure it. Recently, it's been enabled
out-of-the-box for me on ubuntu...

Mike

On 5/2/07, Stephen Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I think firefox is a great browser but I think that firefox can learn one
thing from IE
I think that Firefox and IE try successfully to make their browsers user
friendly so that the
lowest common denominator can user their browsers,
but IE is streets ahead, because out of IE and Firefox IE is the only
browser that doesn't assume
that everyone has 20/20 vision.
I can hear everybody saying ctr+ will increase font. True but this will
distort
the web page even to the extent that some links or information can become
hidden
but only IE will show the web page with a suitable font size and layed out
in such a way that no information is hidden or
missing.

In fact the first thing I noticed when I first used linux was that the
fonts and everything just seemed to be smaller.

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