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LostInEmulation
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Joined: Feb 11, 2008
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| Compiku wrote: |
I always have a hard time not taking it personally when someone puts down the OS X font smoothing, which is one of my main reasons for choosing Safari. It's like they're implying that I have bad taste in text rendering.
Seriously, though, I don't understand why so many people hate the rendering. There's a bunch of people on the internet who want Safari for Windows to use ClearType. Why? Talk about blurry text! Apple did the right thing by including the OS X font smoothing. |
For me it is because the characters all seem to have a colored outline, just as if you look though thick lenses. Also, the contrasts are all wrong and different letters are differently colored. This makes text harder to read for me. But I guess this is a matter of taste.
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Compiku
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Jan 14, 2008
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Location: Ohio
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| LostInEmulation wrote: |
For me it is because the characters all seem to have a colored outline, just as if you look though thick lenses. Also, the contrasts are all wrong and different letters are differently colored. This makes text harder to read for me. But I guess this is a matter of taste. |
Well...a matter of taste, and a matter of "the text looks different on each person's computer." On my display, I have the exact opposite: Windows' native ClearType appears to have a colored outline, and Safari' rendering looks very clear and crisp to me. |
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Dokken
Pileated woodpecker
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Age: 28
Posts: 193
Location: Merryland
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Ya, so, umm... I use seamonkey, and I see someone else does to.
I sometimes use firefox, galeon, and opera. It depends, I guess |
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lau
Quinquaginta Novem! Male Gee-knee-us + silly bits.
Joined: Jun 18, 2006
Age: 59
Posts: 6622
Location: Somerset UK
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Ah Dokken! We must exchange hints on the beauties (and occasional uglinesses) of SeaMonkey.
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wolphin
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:50 am Post subject: |
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For a while, the "fuzzy" apple fonts annoyed me too, but once I had read a sizable amount of text using it, I realized how beneficial they are - the whole point is to reduce eye strain and such, not to be aesthetically pleasing (surprisingly unlike most apple UI features)
So they may not look the best, but they fulfill their function.
Also, subpixel rendering really does work best on LCD monitors or similar - the benefit on, say, CRT's is less. |
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LostInEmulation
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:48 am Post subject: |
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I think fuzzy fonts are harder to read since high contrast is a big part of readability!
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wrong_planet
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| Firefox all the way! |
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Orwell
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Location: Room 101
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:00 am Post subject: |
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I've run through several. I'm on a Mac, so started out with Safari, then later switched to Firefox. THen I found out Mozilla had Camino, AKA Firefox for Macs. Used that for quite a while. Tonight I downloaded Opera, and I'm already hooked. Opera pwns all others, including Firefox 3.
Opera FTW!
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lau
Quinquaginta Novem! Male Gee-knee-us + silly bits.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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Ah... but no free AdBlock for Opera, so, pretty as it is, I can't be bothered with it. I'll stick with my SeaMonkey + loads of useful extensions.
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Orwell
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Haven't had any ads popping up so far. What's Seamonkey?
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Warsie
HMFIC G Representin' Da South Side of Chi-Town
Joined: Apr 04, 2008
Age: 17
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Location: Chicago, IL USA
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| pakled wrote: | I have to use Internet Exploder at work, but that's not a choice... |
You can run it off a flash drive; the Sandick Cruzers have Firefox either pre-installed or available as something you can easily d/l from the site
I would run firefox off my external hard drive when at places; I copied the installed files to my exHD; runs rine everytime. Only ha a little stuff lke asking for bookmarks and that's it
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catlover02
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Age: 25
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Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I use Mozilla Firefox. Dawn |
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wsmac
WP Elevator Operator - What Floor Please?
Joined: Sep 01, 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Humboldt County, Little Blue House on the Corner
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:26 am Post subject: |
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Okay, so the other night I downloaded Camino and I'm using that and Firefox now.
Hahaha... when will it EVER END!    ... Safari, then Firefox, then Opera, now Camino... next... Seamonkey? 
I've also done this with other programs...
Garageband... Audacity... Reaper... FairGame... Flip4Mac
ffmpeg... mactheripper... quicktime... downloader helper... WMV Player...
SuperDuper... Backup (mac)
Photoshop... Illustrator... Inkscape... GIMP... Blender
BlueJ... Python... Alice...
 
I just can't seem to stop downloading programs! They're taking over my life... well.. actually just my computer!
Maybe one day I'll be able to wean myself down to just one or two browsers... 
Then maybe I'll tackle the rest of my bloat on my macbook! Poor little laptop... 
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Betzalel
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:37 am Post subject: |
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I run Firefox as my main browser but I use W3C Amaya for what it is really meant to be used for.
It is more of a integrated browser/editor than a traditional browser. and I use it to edit HTML (particularly ugly machine generated HTML like what comes from OpenOffice or Microsoft Word)
I actually have a good reason for needing to do this. but it happens to be mainly a matter of supporting a particularly broken subsystem of a piece of software i support where someone decided to use HTML for something it was never meant to handle. |
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Orwell
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Age: 18
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Location: Room 101
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| wsmac wrote: | Okay, so the other night I downloaded Camino and I'm using that and Firefox now.
Hahaha... when will it EVER END! ... Safari, then Firefox, then Opera, now Camino... next... Seamonkey? |
Ha, me too. Safari, Firefox, Camino, Opera, then back to Firefox, currently back on Safari.
| Quote: | I just can't seem to stop downloading programs! They're taking over my life... well.. actually just my computer!
Maybe one day I'll be able to wean myself down to just one or two browsers...
Then maybe I'll tackle the rest of my bloat on my macbook! Poor little laptop... |
Why don't you go download a livecd of Ubuntu for your Macbook?
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