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Re:One more Internet Explorer to worry about by sid0 on Thursday November 19, 2009 @06:25AM (#950070)
I have no idea what he's talking about there. Firefox supports ligatures, but ultimately relies on the OS to do the font rendering, just like IE does. DirectWrite's support for Y-directional subpixel antialiasing and subpixel positioning is what IE9 will benefit from. (A DirectWrite backend is in the works for Firefox, too.)

DirectWrite rendering is better than the next best Windows rendering, which has so far been the best rendering across OSes -- yes, this is a personal opinion, and no, I'm not interested in debating the relative merits of Windows and OS X rendering. Unless Firefox gets its DirectWrite backend first, IE9 will have the best rendering available on any desktop platform.

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Re:One more Internet Explorer to worry about by nickpp on Thursday November 19, 2009 @08:54AM (#950214)
He lost ANY credibility when he started bashing IE's font rendering. Not only that is the same OS rendering used by Firefox, but with Cleartype is one of the best font rendering out there. Some think of it as better than OS X's.

As the parent comment said, the future is even better: DirectWrite.

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