Comments on: Safari for Windows… ?

By: argh, my eyes!

argh, my eyes! — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:16:19 +0000

Ok, so some people like fuzzy, pretty text, other people like readable text and using an LCD without getting a headache.

Apple, please, FFS give us the option to disable the fuzzy font nightmare!

By: jon Morin

jon Morin — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:35:40 +0000

I don’t see how you can compare those screenshots in the post and honestly say that Firefox looks better. I guess like most things, even text appearance is completely subjective….

By: Martijn

Martijn — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:17:27 +0000

I don’t like font smoothing at all and always turn it off.

By: Jeff Walden

Jeff Walden — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:20:58 +0000

I agree with others — the fonts are blurry and suck to read. Various sites claim this to be a Microsoft-Apple split over readability versus faithfulness to the typographer’s intentions, and honestly, I couldn’t care less what the typographer thought when he made his oh-so-beautiful printable font — I want to be able to read it on a screen, since that’s where I’ll see it most.

By: Benjamin Frisch

Benjamin Frisch — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:44:57 +0000

1. Did you know WebKit, Safari's backend, even the Windows version, is opensource? (http://www.webkit.org)

2. http://www.joelonsoftware.c... pretty much explains the whole font smoothing issue.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:46:35 +0000

Grey, have you tried the ClearType tuning PowerToy?

http://www.microsoft.com/ty…

By: hansen

hansen — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:47:07 +0000

I gotta agree with JD.

From where I’m sitting, Firefox is way smoother than Safari. (IBM X31 default resolution)

By: JD

JD — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:57:14 +0000

You gotta be high or blind because Safari’s font smoothing is terrible. It ruins the look of web pages and Firefox + cleartype is way better and much easier on the eyes.

By: Stig

Stig — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:16:01 +0000

Does anyone know how much code is shared between Windows and Mac versions? Can you assume Mac and Windows versions works and renders the same way on 99% of all webpages?
Of course I’m asking because I wanna know if a Windows-version is a reliable test-app for Safari/Mac compatibility of webpages.

By: Michael Lefevre

Michael Lefevre — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:39:02 +0000

Just reading through all the blogs this morning, and first I saw a couple of people saying "wow, this smoothing is great, Firefox needs to copy this", and then I see people saying http://www.codinghorror.com…">"Safari’s fonts are all messed up" (the comments there have some argument about this issue).