Bad font rendering in Chrome
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Chrome can’t seem to render text properly. The letters suffer from aliasing and are often almost unreadable. This is a problem that I’m rapidly discovering is, if not universal, at least distressingly common. And it seems to afflict WordPress badly.
If you put my site [ http://michaelshirrefs.net/ ], or even this forum page on both Chrome and Explorer, the text results are dramatically different.
I’ve read a number of web forums that discuss this at length and propose all sorts of theoretical CSS fixes and stop-gaps. But I still can’t figure out whether it’s a Chrome problem or a problem with the scripting of websites.
A lot of the talk is about forcing Chrome to fetch the correct SVG files, and one suggestion is that it can be fixed by not putting the REQUEST line for SVG at the end. But then other people disagree … and I find it all hard to follow.
What’s the wisdom amongst the WP/CSS intelligentsia? Is there a workaround that suddenly makes Chrome behave? Or is this a problem that we have to wait for Google to fix?
Cheers
Michael
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Bad font rendering has made the rounds. I remember when Safari rendered poorly and Firefox and IE rendered well. Then it would switch around.
The OS and the video systems on computers also have an effect on how things look onscreen as does the quality of the display, although this is mostly differences between computers rather than browsers.
All browsers render differently. It isn’t a problem with the scripting, or anything in the CSS on websites, it is simply design decisions by the browser developers.
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Hmm … suspected as much! Hard to believe that the most basic element of the web is so hard to get right.
So we need good people to infiltrate Google and Microsoft and Mozilla to forces some sort of ‘consensus’ programming!!
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With consensus programming comes complacency and slower progress – or so it seems. Everyone forgets about innovating.
Retina displays (and the like) are going to force the issue though as soon as then become more widespread. I can’t wait to get my new laptop with Retina display.
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My iPad retina display is a delight. Everything looks as it ought there. And I’m increasingly tempted to abandon Windows for Mac.
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I love my Mac and have been using them since 1990. I’ve had to keep my fingers in the Windows world for most of my life, but prefer Macs.
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My problem is I’ve invested so much in terms of software (and hardware) for audio/video production (working in a large broadcast organisation that is almost solely Windows-based) …
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