[tavilach]

I'm thinking about switching from Safari to Firefox, but somethings weird with the fonts. For example, the MacNN thread list page is displayed in this very ugly, course font...like something from OS 9. Does Safari automatically impose a certain font on pages, or is something else up? How do I get all pages to essentially look the same (to the best extent possible) as they do in Safari?

[larkost]

All browsers have their own choices for default fonts, and for the default fonts for font families. Trying to specify a specific font is always a bad idea because people will have different fonts avalible. This is just how the web works. Try Camino if you are looking for a mozilla browser with fonts more like Safari.

[TETENAL]

What you see is a sideeffect of Firefox using QuickDraw text. You will have to wait for them to switch to ATSUI to have all fonts look like in Safari. There is a thread that discusses this switch already.

[wataru]

I believe part of it is intentional. Screen fonts below certain sizes are purposely not antialiased because screen fonts are designed to be displayed on a screen and so don't need to be smoothed like printer fonts do. So if that's what you're talking about, then it's really Safari not respecting that difference.

[tavilach]

Originally posted by wataru:
I believe part of it is intentional. Screen fonts below certain sizes are purposely not antialiased because screen fonts are designed to be displayed on a screen and so don't need to be smoothed like printer fonts do. So if that's what you're talking about, then it's really Safari not respecting that difference.

It's a completely different font, though. On post pages, the font for the username and post count etc. is this same horrible font, but the actual text in the thread is the normal Safari font. Err...

[brutal]

It seems that the Geneva-font is the problem here. Any other font is properly anti-aliased.

BTW: in the MacNN topmenu, why are 2 links written in Verdana and 2 in Geneva?

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