Comments on: Why Is Internet Explorer’s Font Rendering So Much Better Than Firefox and Opera?

By: pippin

pippin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:01:55 +0000

I tend to agree with the author, but also wanted to point out that some fonts look better with anti-aliasing turned on and some don’t.

Verdana, is a font commonly used on the web which was specifically designed to be easier to read on screen. In my opinion with small size type (11px) is looks better with anti-aliasing turned off.

Ironically Verdana was created by Microsoft!
Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdana

In general font size makes a huge difference. Larger sizes tend to look better with anti-aliasing on and small sizes look worse.

Hopefully some day we’ll be able to selectively turn antialiasing on or off for differnt fonts in a browser. It’s been in Photoshop for years.

By: Adam Quiller

Adam Quiller — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:11:33 +0000

I am a new user to Firefox and, yes, I did not think it looked as good as Internet Explorer. With your tweak it now does.

Magic!

Thanks. You are indeed the man!

By: James

James — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:43:38 +0000

If you just do step three you can get the desired view of IE in Firefox without losing all the jazz. Well, at least what made me stay away from Firefox. Anyway, I hope it works.

By: Helen Chua

Helen Chua — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:36:33 +0000

Thanks for the tip. The font rendering is the reason I keep away from Firefox.

By: Rick Lecaillon

Rick Lecaillon — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:56:22 +0000

Thank you so much for a clear solution to my problem (bad fonts on Opera).

By: Georgi Antonov

Georgi Antonov — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:10:24 +0000

Thanks for that tip. This clear type looks rather icky when applied to all windows. At least I’m now able to explain to clients and QA guys why do fonts look different under IE

By: Just a Thought

Just a Thought — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:52:17 +0000

First things first, “Intelligent”, you are a stupid wanker!

This person is trying to be helpful by putting this information out there and all you can do is call this person names, whether or not it works on every system is another issue all together!

I for one have just enabled it on my XP box with a CRT screen and it makes things way clearer in browsers like firefox.

As for the other idiots who blindly talk before atleast trying other systems out first (Mac fanatics and such), you need to go back to school and redo/do science.

To “Live Slick”, thanks for the tip!

By: Kymo

Kymo — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:40:42 +0000

I have to say thank you very much!
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By: Nightrider

Nightrider — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:07:56 +0000

Good to know! Now to be honest, I’ve just had this thing on for 2 minutes and my eyes committed suicide. I’m disabling it right away.

By: sid v

sid v — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:38:57 +0000

On my monitor and OS I have to agree with the author. It’s not cool or remotely useful to attack the author and whine about how great Macs are when clearly this post only applies to PCs. For many people on a PC with an LCD monitor this is preferred, so deal with it. BTW, I prefer Opera and I am not an IE fanboy, but I don’t lose my little mind when someone publishes something that doesn’t attack it.