IE7 vs Firefox

robmiller · 9 Dec 2006 at 17:22

Gaverick said:
just makes it look blurred if you ask me

Do you have an LCD?

Moredhel · 9 Dec 2006 at 17:31

Al Vallario said:
Agreed. I think Cleartype makes text look awful, and as someone who likes to think he spends a lot of time in the web development field, Cleartype is not really a true representation of what most people will be viewing (it's exclusive to Windows, and lots of people don't use it).

Text smoothing on OS X, on the other hand... gorgeous.

*av

Yeah, I've always thought it quite strange that cleartype looks so damn awful when font smoothing in osx is essentially the same thing and looks fine.

Clarkey · 9 Dec 2006 at 17:36

i think its awful tbh, cleartype tuner can be used to adjust the way it looks, but i still dont like it. Not had too much experience on macs though so can't comment on that.

Inquisitor · 9 Dec 2006 at 17:40

Gaverick said:
just makes it look blurred if you ask me

Agreed. I'd much rather have nice, crisp text, personally. And yes, I do have a TFT

joeyjojo · 9 Dec 2006 at 17:49

Looks way nicer with Cleartype turned down a bit. Looks blurry as hell with default, but the second-least blurry one on the tuner looks fab imo.

Hamish · 9 Dec 2006 at 18:12

Clarkey said:
i think its awful tbh, cleartype tuner can be used to adjust the way it looks, but i still dont like it. Not had too much experience on macs though so can't comment on that.

Macs look like this in FF:

Much nicer than Win IMO

Clarkey · 9 Dec 2006 at 18:30

looks worse imo, why is it so big and bold?

joeyjojo · 9 Dec 2006 at 18:39

I wonder what bold text looks like then :eek:

It's getting harder and harder to design cross-browser sites.

My current windows preference:

Looks confusing, sorry

RandomTom · 9 Dec 2006 at 19:55

joeyjojo said:

I agree with how you have it, without cleartype just looks bad, the aliasing just has connotations of seeing everything through ms paint.

i couldn't view it like that above. (no cleartype)

OSX font smoothing is lush!

robmiller · 9 Dec 2006 at 19:57

I cannot understand how someone who likes OS X's font smoothing could possibly prefer non-ClearType to ClearType :confused:

Granted ClearType isn't as good as OS X but jesus it's about 400,000 times better than standard.

Inquisitor · 9 Dec 2006 at 20:02

robmiller said:
I cannot understand how someone who likes OS X's font smoothing could possibly prefer non-ClearType to ClearType Granted ClearType isn't as good as OS X but jesus it's about 400,000 times better than standard.

Hell no. It's heavy, blurred, and makes me feel like I'm using a CRT again.

Standard is light, crisp, and the aliasing isn't even noticeable

Sherbs · 9 Dec 2006 at 20:06

Inquisitor said:
and the aliasing isn't even noticeable

LOL.

Obviously in my opinion

Inquisitor · 9 Dec 2006 at 20:12

SherberT* said:
Obviously in my opinion

Most definitely :cool:

But really, everything else is sharp and well defined, why should the text not be :confused:

Antialiasing only looks good macroscopically, and when everything is antialiased.

Jotun · 9 Dec 2006 at 20:13

I just can't stand cleartype, gotten used to the standard text I guess. Use opera 99% of the time anyway, so I can't see myself getting used to cleartype either

Somewhat offtopic- is it possible to install IE6 along side IE7?

I've upgraded to IE7, but want to do some testing in IE6 without using a different machine.

joeyjojo · 9 Dec 2006 at 20:53

Yes. Google for an IE5 standalone guide, but follow the guide with IE6 files. It pretty much worked when I did it, however I seem to have crippled Javascript

I've put my (possibly dodgy) version on beansprouts uploader anyway, might be useful.
http://www.twobeds.com/upload/userfiles/joeyjojo/IE6 standalone.zip

Jotun · 9 Dec 2006 at 21:55

Google turned up a few results, including what appears to be the same file that you uploaded, and also returns errors for me. Should do for testing layouts though, also I found this for installing a few different versions. Thanks for the help