garry’s posterous

They look different in different browsers too! I have Safari on PC and there they look the best. IE looks alright but not Firefox.

Well then, don't even remotely try to load a website in Opera for linux. I've tried it recently, and some fonts look like 8-bit pictures, hehehe :)

Speaking of ugly stuff, the bug where DIV {margin:0px} keeps showing up -- we're about to post a fix for that this afternoon.

The exciting thing about computers is that they double in power every 18 months... so that means good things are coming. I read someplace that In 30 years computers will have more computational power than every human that ever lived. Isn't that crazy!?


But then skynet became self-aware...

IE 7 made fonts prettier but since I favor FF in general I only open IE7 to look at how my sites look across diff browsers. It would be nice when all fonts can look graceful in pixels.

They improved a little with FireFox 3, but each time I fire up IE or Safari I'm reminded.... Safari, most of all!

Setting the font-family style to Helvetica is a decent alternative to Arial, if you want that non-pixelated look to your web text.

Also, if you're interested, here's a little write-up on the evolution of web fonts.

Fonts are definitely better looking on a Mac. The ironic thing for Windows is that Microsoft has been one of the most prolific commissioners of high-quality type for on-screen display – Verdana and Georgia by Matthew Carter, Calibri by Lucas de Groot for Office 2007 and Vista, as well as the whole OpenType initiative – all have been wonderful contributions to typographic excellence for the "new" medium. The problem is that having these fine typefaces display on a Windows machine is like doing Ikebana on a pile of cow dung. What a waste.