Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 09/15/06 13:00

Hello,

windandwaves wrote:
> I just did a test run for IE 7.0 - nothing too special... It all seems
> to be working pretty well, nice design. However, the fonts are
> amazing.... That is really a huge change. It makes your PC look like a
> MAC. The fonts are anti-aliased? This is really a design thing and
> not a technical issue, so I am not sure if I should discuss here, but I
> just wanted to express my excitement about this... Will my beloved FF
> do the same thing? The crazy thing is that Outlook does the same thing
> so it is really something that is deeply embedded in windows. Having
> said that, I dont see it in any other programme....

AFAIK this is ClearType which is enabled in IE7. It's also available for all
other apps, but you'll have to enable it manually (don't ask me how, I'm a
Linux user...).

See also http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/03/03/543181.aspx (which I
didn't read in detail).

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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

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