anti aliased text in web browsers

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Joined: Dec 2002

All of my web browsers display aliased text (jagged edges, only 1 color). I know that I have seen anti aliased text on web browsers before. Is there a setting for this somewhere (Mozilla and IE 5.0)?

Busy's picture

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Joined: May 2001

I think it depends on the style of font and size used rather than a setting

Abhishek Reddy's picture

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Joined: Jul 2001

I think windows/desktop has an option to turn off anti-aliasing somewhere...

Yes, with Windows XP, go to Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance Settings, and in the list, tick the "Smooth edges of screen fonts" box. (I think this is the one Confused )

Suzanne's picture

She has: 5,507 posts

Joined: Feb 2000

Mmm, everything is so nice and smooth in OSX... MMMM... Wink

Joking aside, from Win98+ and OSX you can have anti-aliasing for a set size. Pages look *so* much nicer. Man. I opened N4 (in OS9) for testing the other day and was so sad to see the jaggies.

They have: 42 posts

Joined: Dec 2002

Found it. Its just under display/effects/smooth transitions on screen fonts. This is on Windows 2000 pro.

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