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Why is this split into 7 pages? I could understand maybe splitting it up into 3 pages to get more pageviews, but this is just going to irritate of every single one of their readers. Not to mention that the article fails to address the very significant issue of font rendering, and how bad it can be on Windows without ClearType enabled or special hinting larger font sizes (which is resolved in IE9 and Firefox 4, neither of which are released yet).

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Believe me, I don't like pagination either - and I really mean it, but I thought that a single page or fewer pages would be too long to read, and I also thought it would be easier to organise the information in distinct sections.

Next time I will reduce the number of pages though, if feedbacks like yours suggest that I do so :)

As for the font rendering issues, I did mention -although briefly- the https://github.com/MichaelvanLaar/Webfont-Load-Enhancer library, as a possible solution to improve the web font experience on Windows. Did you mean this or something else?

Thanks a lot for your feedback ;)

I think Sephr is referring to the fact that many fonts look absolutely terrible on versions of Windows that don't have font smoothing enabled, namely XP. We almost threw out using custom fonts after we saw what our website looked like in XP.

I wrote up an article not too long ago about how we worked around this, which I feel weird mentioning because I just posted this on another thread like two days ago, but oh well:

http://dev.codio.com/graceful-degradation-for-non-web-standa...

I was referring to that, and the inadequate font smoothing at large font sizes even with ClearType on. It was fixed in Windows 7, but no browsers except for IE9 use the new text writing API that takes advantage of the better smoothing. I have edited my comment to be a little less ambiguous.

Uhm, weird, I meant to reply to you but for some reason the reply link which I could see and use now didn't show up before (?)

There's a progressive delay in showing the "reply" button on longer threads. This is meant to prevent long flamewars (and it certainly seems to help).

Thanks apu, that makes sense. I am kind of new around here, so I hadn't noticed that yet.

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