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I'm not sure how this gets rendered, but the lack of hinting makes it a strain to read. What irony that an article about progress in text rendering has such awful rendering quality.

PS: That is in Firefox. In Chrome it uses what appears to be a bitmap font, which is much worse.

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I think the author could've used "Publish to web" instead of preview mode, for a more accessible article view with better font rendering and keyboard control (though it changes image size and breaks right-aligned text).

I believe this is a Google doc preview. On my iPad it had terrible scrolling performance, and the shortcut to scroll to the top of the page (tap the top edge of the screen) doesn't work :(

indeed it is, as meanwhile confirmed at the top of the document.

For me in Chromium, I got the error message "Some fonts could not be loaded" and the body text was in an actually readable font, unlike in Firefox.

I got annoyed that the page hijacked right click and key navigation, so I wanted to print to PDF — which didn't work. Chrome printed a single blank page. Firefox managed to print, but also only a single page, and when zoomed in the font got interpolated (= blurry), instead of being more readable.

This page breaks zoom and all scrolling keys (page up/down and space bar) in Firefox too on top of being ugly :/

I'm on Firefox and zoom/page up/down work but space doesn't. Also using own font (disabling allow pages choose their own fonts) results in broken page.

If you click the Google Docs link at the top of the document, you can then export it to html/txt/pdf.

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