Fonts in Web Browsers
Why do the fonts look really bad in Camino/Mozilla/Netscape ? ( at least when the web page has smaller fonts ) To highlight what I'm saying I have a few screen shots. The default font for both Camino and Safari in these screenshots is Lucida Grande 14pt. ( I think that Camino might have been 15pt, but that still highlights my point since the rendering should have been better at the larger size. )
This is the page rendering in Camino. Notice in particular the 'This page was...' part before the articles are started to be listed.
This is the same page rendered in Safari. Notice how the fonts look 10 times better.
Is there something that I'm doing wrong ? Is there something that I can change to make the fonts look a lot better in Camino ?
This is the page rendering in Camino. Notice in particular the 'This page was...' part before the articles are started to be listed.
This is the same page rendered in Safari. Notice how the fonts look 10 times better.
Is there something that I'm doing wrong ? Is there something that I can change to make the fonts look a lot better in Camino ?
Comments
I personally have no beef with Camino's/Mozilla's font rendering. Then again, I have a background in linux (and recently, OpenBSD) and man, you haven't seen font rendering problems until you've used antialiased fonts under them!
They bypassed the standard API calls in order to speed up rendering. I don't know if they simply forgot about this option or if it is a calculated trade-off.
That is how the font is supposed to appear given your user options, in fact it has probably been specifically hinted in order to give it that particular look.
It looks too bold in some places and too thin in others because there are so few pixels to play with and since the minimum is 1 pixel it will almost certainly look bold alongside anti-aliased fonts, as they can use widths that are fractions of a pixel.