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Re:An HN Alternative for Long-form Content by AlexDanger on Saturday May 18, 2013 @10:36PM (#5731524)
I'm getting weird font rendering on this site:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1325900/Capture1.PNG

Windows 8 x64, Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m.

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Re:An HN Alternative for Long-form Content by JacksonGariety on Saturday May 18, 2013 @11:48PM (#5731687)
Can you clear cache and try now? Thanks.
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Re:An HN Alternative for Long-form Content by AlexDanger on Sunday May 19, 2013 @12:10AM (#5731738)
Still no good.

Are you doing some kind of scaling? It looks much better when I scale to 110% (Chrome and IE), but at the default 100% I get the artifacts. Tried a few different zoom settings, some are ok, some are not.

On the HN site I can zoom to any size and the font renders correctly .

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Re:An HN Alternative for Long-form Content by cheapsteak on Sunday May 19, 2013 @12:33AM (#5731802)
Seems to be related to font size.

right now 48px: http://i.imgur.com/6osWiqq.png

fine at 50px (additional 1.05em) http://i.imgur.com/lafmcpQ.png

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Re:An HN Alternative for Long-form Content by JacksonGariety on Sunday May 19, 2013 @12:24AM (#5731766)
I wish I had a Windows computer to test with. I'd play around with font size in the inspector until I got it rendering correctly. If you can give me a font size that renders correctly I'll change it.
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Re:An HN Alternative for Long-form Content by allannienhuis on Sunday May 19, 2013 @02:17PM (#5733822)
https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

super easy way to get windows vms installed on virtual box. Installs as many versions of IE as you want/need, preconfigured on clean vms. The vms are provided by microsoft: http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools

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Re:An HN Alternative for Long-form Content by AlexDanger on Sunday May 19, 2013 @12:45AM (#5731834)
I'm not a web guy but you might need to check out the root cause, from looking at the inspector I presume you're using google webfonts? this might be related:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10953037/google-webfonts-...

Regarding a windows machine, you can get a free micro windows instance on Amazon AWS.

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Re:An HN Alternative for Long-form Content by vxNsr on Sunday May 19, 2013 @12:52AM (#5731853)
Still getting it. (also in IE) I noticed that if I zoom in at x400 it looks great, it starts looking better at x175 but only has none of that artifact stuff at x400.
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