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What gets me about Microsoft every time is how it has this, like . . . "universally" ugly font. I can take a look at a screenshot capture and in the blink of a
by indiejade 18y ago
What gets me about Microsoft every time is how it has this, like . . . "universally" ugly font. I can take a look at a screenshot capture and in the blink of an eye know it was rendered on a MS system.
I think one of Microsoft's biggest foibles has been its poor use of fonts, its stubbornness in rendering for modernized CSS, its stubbornness in rendering for modern everything. I stopped caring what web pages look like in IE in about. . oh, 2005.
Of course, Microsoft "hates" to render proper, modern CSS, so its no surprise that their web arm is so archaic. Almost all of the design foibles mentioned in the article could be easily corrected if they were to let IE let CSS do that thing that it does best.
- unalone 18y agoYeah, their web rendering is an absolute pain. The site I'm working on is nearly all text, and we've put a lot of focus on making it look beautiful on every OS, every browser. With Windows we had to give up: the only say to get gorgeous typography is to either use SIFR or to make the fonts ridiculously big.