Safari uses its own text rendering engine, as opposed to the native windows engine. The engine is designed to render text the same way Mac OS X does, which dif

Safari uses its own text rendering engine, as opposed to the native windows engine. The engine is designed to render text the same way Mac OS X does, which differs from the way Windows does. There's a lot of discussion on the topic, here is a relatively good primer: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html However, it's worth noting that this behavior is going to change soon. The nightly releases of Safari are introducing support for text rendering that matches the native OS. http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/ http://webkit.org/blog/168/gdi-text-on-windows/