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On OS X Safari, the articles are in Georgia 13, but the subpixel rendering is disabled. The result is ghastly. The type appears randomly weighted and poorly kerned.

If you copy a paragraph and paste it into TextEdit you can see the same text still in Georgia 13 without broken rendering.

You can use the assistive zoom to see clearly what is going on. (Hold control and "two finger up" on the trackpad, or scroll wheel up if you are that sort.) The color fringe at the edges of the zoomed letters is the subpixel rendering.

Can you explain why the aa gets disabled in Safari but not Chrome? Seems strange considering they're both running Webkit.

I wish I could. I looked with the inspector for -webkit-* trickery in the CSS and didn't see any on the element.

Antialiasing is still on. The pixels go through shades of gray at the edges, it is just the subpixel that is off.

Really interesting bug. If you turn on GPU Accelerated Compositing in about:flags in chrome it becomes blurry. Turn it off and it looks fine.

EDIT: bug here http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=46790

For me, only the main page is fuzzy. If I go to an article, the fonts are fine.

Yup. Terrible rendering. I will not use that version again any time soon.

Ah, updated Chrome to latest Dev version. Much better.