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I think Sephr is referring to the fact that many fonts look absolutely terrible on versions of Windows that don't have font smoothing enabled, namely XP. We alm

I think Sephr is referring to the fact that many fonts look absolutely terrible on versions of Windows that don't have font smoothing enabled, namely XP. We almost threw out using custom fonts after we saw what our website looked like in XP. I wrote up an article not too long ago about how we worked around this, which I feel weird mentioning because I just posted this on another thread like two days ago, but oh well: http://dev.codio.com/graceful-degradation-for-non-web-standard-fon http://dev.codio.com/graceful-degradation-for-non-web-standa...

Sephr 16y ago
I was referring to that, and the inadequate font smoothing at large font sizes even with ClearType on. It was fixed in Windows 7, but no browsers except for IE9 use the new text writing API that takes advantage of the better smoothing. I have edited my comment to be a little less ambiguous.
- vitobotta 16y ago
  Uhm, weird, I meant to reply to you but for some reason the reply link which I could see and use now didn't show up before (?)
  - apu 16y ago
    There's a progressive delay in showing the "reply" button on longer threads. This is meant to prevent long flamewars (and it certainly seems to help).
    - vitobotta 16y ago
      Thanks apu, that makes sense. I am kind of new around here, so I hadn't noticed that yet.