MAC auto alias in browser?
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- bhawk
Is there a line of code I can put into my CSS that will stop MAC from convert my fonts to anti-alias fonts, px get all fucked and it hard to read. Why is that the px is diffrent on a mac and a pc?
I want my text to look exactly like it does on a PC basically.
- Tyrone0
MAC and PC screen resolutions are different 96 dpi vs 72 dpi
- kpl0
nope, no code exists to force anti-aliasing off. yet.
- DeviceUnseen0
I'm using Safari and Newstoday comes up as alias text but everything else comes up as anti-aliased text. Is there something in the code here?
- ikbenvanrijn0
in mac os x, apple uses something called "Quartz" its a rendering engine. i.e. anti aliasing, video rendering etc.
- auricom0
that's just how it is....i think.
safari gets on my nerves at times.
- cinder0
Yeah, they need an option to turn that crap off.
- ikbenvanrijn0
i dont think its that bad really. it makes everything look like it is in photoshop.
18 pixel fonts look so much better via the browser in quartz rather than the same 18 pixel font on a pc browser. on the pc its all jagged and horrible
- ribit0
That crap is the future... of course it's all based around the assumption that we will all have mega-resolution screens in a few years, and standard browser font sizes will be like 50-100 pixels high, not 10 as they are now (like, 300dpi screens).... so it will all be nice and crisp...
pity it's all fuzzy for now.
- 4cY0
go to system prefs, change the settings.
easy as that.
- unknown0
yeah just change the setting in the system preferences- set you standard smallest size and BOOM no problem... bitch bitch bitch...
- bhawk0
It's just that a 7pt font look all garbbled on a mac. It frustrating. I need a solution on the html end. :(