I'm starting to get the feeling that I'm on one side of the looking glass and some other people are on the other.....EvilGuru wrote:The characters, C, D and M in the screenshot you posted would all look much nicer with subpixel rendering.
'nicer'
What does this mean? Can it be defined? Can it be demonstrated? Can someone show what is deficient in the letters C,D & M as is?
What special qualities do the letters C, D & M have (or lack) that they would benefit while the other letters deserve no mention?
And the trouble with sub-pixel rendering is that it introduces colour artefacts that more than negate any other benefits it might have. That's not an OS issue, it's there on Windows as well. Apparently a lot of people don't notice or care about a colour fringe and poor edge definition but it always looks quite apparent to me, and very strange. Perhaps reading too many printed books with black text on white(ish) background has somehow blinded me to the benefits of ill defined text with a colour fringe.....
So now I've heard that the byte code interpreter is absolutely required and also that it's 'evil' and also that it's the wrong kind.
Can anyone offer an objective, reasoned, response to my earlier question "can anyone point out or describe the legibility issue in the screenshots I posted, which are 1:1 jpgs from my screen? "
Answering "something else would be nicer/better" is not a good answer because it tells me nothing, it demonstrates nothing, it offers no comparison, it offers no method for comparison.
But I visited your site (and remembered to change the browser preferences so it displays fonts how you want, not how I want) and I can see the difference and your screenshot does demonstrate the fonts being rendered better than when I visit your site for real, but it seems to be particular to certain fonts. And I prefer to choose fonts I find easy to read so by default I have browsers set to use my choices not someone else's. Actually your site is very legible by default but many are not, the authors seeming to prefer effect to function....I wish there was such an easy fix for all those sites who use white text over black background, or grey on blue or anything made by an emo or a goth.......
