Choppy Text

jp_ posted this at 00:21 — 10th January 2006.

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Hello everyone, I'm a bit stumped with this problem I'm dealing with. I've looked everywhere.

If you notice Bolded text is choppy. This only happens in internet explorer. The white background is the ".content" div layer. Can anyone help me?

css:

/* This controls certain characteristics of the body tag */
body {
	margin: 0px;
	
	/* Specify what font to have for entire page */
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Verdana, Helvetica; 
	
	/* Page's background color */
	background-color: #000000;
	
	/* Page's wallpaper */
	background-image: url('templates_img/bg05.jpg');	
			
	background-repeat: repeat-x; 
	background-position: top; 
	background-attachment: fixed;
}

.content {
	width: 80%;
	min-width: 780px;
	max-width: 1000px;
	text-align: left;

	/* if you do not want a background-color
	simply change to 'tranparent' with out quotes. */
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	
	/* if you do not want a border change to 'none' 
	without quotes */
	border: 1px solid #000000; 
	
	padding: 4px;
	margin-bottom: 30px;
}

mikehannon posted this at 00:32 — 10th January 2006.

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what is the website's address?

demonhale posted this at 03:48 — 10th January 2006.

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post a link and lets have a look at...

Busy posted this at 09:36 — 10th January 2006.

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tried changing your font?

JeevesBond posted this at 13:13 — 10th January 2006.

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That's Windows fault, specifically the fact that it doesn't anti-aliase text. Have a look at this article: http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0404h.shtml#print2

Specifically the bit that says:

Quote: Every time I design a website in Photoshop, I leave the body text non-antialiased, because ugly, pixellated text is what most computer users will see. I wish they could see what I see when I use OS X.

I must quickly mention that Mac OS is based on Linux, which also provides text anti-aliasing (in most cases).

So change the font around until it looks ok on Windows, and remember: If you convert everyone to using Mac or Linux, the world will be a better - anti-aliased - place.