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Entry Posted November 28, 2006

http://www.zeldman.com/2006/11/27/safari-beats-firefox/ Not sure I’m inclined to take Firefox font-handling criticisms seriously when it comes from someone who’s unconcerned that the italic text and the Roman text on their site come from different fonts… There’s a reason italic body text is almost entirely absent from apple.com! 00:02

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information rain | deliciously simple web design & creatively technical writing (informationrain.com):
… The whole topic of the differences in font-rendering between Macs and Windows itself is also pretty fascinating. There’s a large amount of interesting discussion on the topic. * Font-rendering in Safari appearsbetter than in other browsers. * There are normal Aqua-style buttons, everything feels more Mac-like. In Firefox for instance, the close tab button is on the right like in Windows instead of the left like Safari and the Mac OS. …

Nice Web Type (nicewebtype.com):
… A little sIFR/W3C back-and-forth in this typophile discussion. Nov 14 Web font embedding returns: Survey!: Thomas Phinney sums up the situation and digs into some details. Voice your opinion via his anonymous survey. Nov 14Safari better than Firefox?: "Firefox’s way with text leaves much to be desired, as the following screen shots show." Oct 29Web Typography Sucks | Slides and notes from SxSW 2007: Richard Rutter's and Mark Boulton's presentation as a PDF (with/without notes) from SxSW 2007. Oct 23 Screen Fonts: An Abbr. Hist.: Educated insight into some history and tech of screen …

The Lumber Room (shreevatsa.wordpress.com):
… Gawd, its handling of italics sucks. I can’t even read Wikipedia without being distracted by the ugly italics that run onto adjacent words.Jeffrey Zeldman …

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