MS Vista vs MACOS X
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- rafalski0
I am trying to figure out how OSX marketshare within webdesign community can stay so high with web font issues it has
- browsers have problems displaying characters from outside basic latin charset - weird sizes and weights
- line-heights, font sizes and weights tend to get odd, I mean they look way different on a mac sometimes.
- quartz antialiasing is nice, but try to turn smoothing off and kerning goes wild. It's not only that the system looks better antialiased, but it looks really bad without it. Have you ever seen NT in Safari without font smoothing? That's just crappy. How come it looks good in windows?
The good side of it is probably you can assume people only use it with quartz on.. ;)Don't get me wrong, I am not saying "osx sucks for webdesign" at all, I'm just wondering how they can get away with it. Actually, I hardly notice any complaints from designers/developers.