3/16/2023 0 Comments Mac text rendering for windows![]() ![]() Also, Firefox can use the kerning built into fonts, which affects spacing, though it doesn’t actually impact rendering of individual glyphs. ![]() Safari for Windows has an optional setting to use Apple’s “Quartz” text rendering, even on Windows-this was the one-and-only rendering option in Safari 3 for Windows, but Windows users “freaked,” so Apple changed it for Safari 4 for Windows. Internet Explorer 7 actually ignores the OS setting in favor of its own prefs setting, which is to use the OSes ClearType rendering regardless. Similarly, all today’s major web browsers on Mac OS simply use the system text rendering. Why is this? All of today’s major web browsers on Windows ( IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) simply use the OS’s user-adjustable GDI text rendering settings, whatever those may be. (As also shown in Si Daniels’ presentation at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City). On any given Windows computer running XP or Vista or Windows 7, you will generally get >pixel-for-pixel identical glyph rendering in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. There are a couple of caveats (see below), but for the most part, this a this is a system level setting. This post by Jeffrey Zeldman on font rendering in web browsers is a good introduction to the subject in a number of respects, but unfortunately repeats a pernicious myth: that web browsers on Windows all render text differently, and that this interacts with the OS rendering.
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