Apple Safari: Do you see problems with the fonts' sharpness?

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I find webpage fonts on Safari kind of blurry, even after changing the smoothness from medium to light, it doesn't improve a lot .. any idea why?

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Safari uses Apple's font rendering algorithms. They're intended to stay true to the shape of the letterforms without worrying too much about keeping them within the pixel grid. Check out Joel's explanation: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html/. Or Jeff Atwood's: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000885.html

Of course, if you're not on Windows, I have no clue.

Does this happen in any other applications? Are icons fuzzy as well on the dock or desktop? If that's the case, you might not be running at the monitor's native resolution.

If it's just the browser, try changing browsers. If THAT doesn't work, stop leeching your neighbors internet ;) (http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html)

the fuzziness is only on the web-pages in safari - same web-page is okay on firefox - i think firefox is the best and with ver3.0 there is no competition.

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